Well, even with my handy-dandy sleeping pills we spent a restless night. At least when we hauled ourselves out of bed it was again to beautiful sunshine and another nice breakfast, this time hosted by Paul.   A quick note for those who have used Booking.com…which I have used many times in my hotel searches/bookings in Europe. We have learned that they tend to be bullies when it comes to those hotels that list on their website and take an average of 40%...

As many of you already know, my nightly regiment is a sleeping pill for 3 days when traveling to a time zone +/-4 hours from my time zone. I started it when I was traveling to France for work, as I would arrive and then not be able to sleep, which made for miserable and unproductive days.   I hate pills in general, but hate not sleeping even more and Ken has become convert as well. So! We each took a Sominex and were fast asleep by 830p and slept until 8am&...

Our 5 hour flight to Dulles and our 7.5 hour flight to Frankfurt were uneventful. Neither of us slept, which makes for a long day/night.   We had long enough in Frankfurt to hit the Lufthansa Lounge, grab quick snack and charge our devices and get our 1.5 hour flight to Budapest.We arrived in Budapest to beautiful sunshine, 65 degrees and our driver waiting for us to take us to the Kapital Inn our home base for the next few days.   Albert our host at Kapital...