Went on a bike tour this morning around Budapest. We started at the Opera House with our guide Ivan (Hungarian who studies in the US) and then headed towards City Park. We got separated a few times which is fairly understandable when you have about 25 people on bikes riding in a pack around town, but Renee (the token dad of the group) managed to pick up the tail of the group and get us all back together. We crossed the Margaret Bridge to the Buda side of the city...

Went on our way to Budapest today and stopped by a small park area to have a picnic. After that we had a long drive to Budapest where the bus was scorching hot because the air conditioning was broken and the sun here in Eastern Europe is the hottest ever. Arrived at Hostel Marco Polo and had time for a quick shower and did the laundry before going to dinner with the whole group at a restaurant called Kiado. It was the first eastern europe food that I really enj...