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Friday 25th April

Sorry, folks I skipped a day and we in fact arrived in Budapest on Thursday 24th! Blame it on jet lag .

Wake up to find that the weather gods are not shining on us again and it looks as though the drizzle has set in for the day. Still we have lots to do so we have to get on with it. First port of call is a very famous breakfast place called Gerbeaud which unfortunately seems to be closed.( we find out subsequently that we had gone to the wrong door which is for the evening restaurant so it’s good to know that our sense of direction remains undiminished!) Press on another street recommended by the concierge at the hotel, Goszdu Udvar, where we find a good cafe for brekkie.

Gail ‘s specs are broken we find an optician to sort that one out before heading to a travel bureau to order our train tickets from Budapest to Bled in Slovenia. Our agent behind the counter is another of those charisma bypass recipients who seem to pop up in so many of these organisations but eventually we do get the travel arrangements sorted out.

A visit to Budapest’s largest cathedral, St Istvan Basilica, is next and it is certainly imposing, if only by virtue of its sheer size.

    St Istvan Basilica

Thinking of our stomachs as usual and book dinner at Cafe Kor which has established a reputation as one of the city’s best quality restaurants offering quality fare at affordable prices.

Weight Watchers model

The rain is putting a dampener on things again so we decide to head off for a relaxing afternoon at The House of Terror! This building is in fact now a history museum which records the truly unspeakable crimes of two regimes, first the Arrow Cross of the Nazi occupation of Hungary and later the AVO and AVH secret police during the reign of the Soviet satellite government. It is confronting to say the least and we have never seen man’s inhumanity to man set out in more graphic detail.

Dinner at Cafe Kor is superb and our evening out is made all the more pleasurable by meeting up with two very engaging Americans, Steve Roth and Anne Lincoln from Davis, North Caifornia. We enjoy the meal and the company so much we agree to book a table for our foursome for the following evening.

Turn in relatively early after a good but very thought-provoking day.

Cheers

The Obese Ferret.