Sunday, October 14, 2012

Budapest Day 1




We departed Vienna at 9AM using GPS for Budapest but since had plenty of time to get there we decided to go through lower Slovakia We headed toward Brataslawa using the backroads and bypassed the city on our way to Komarom..

Kom谩rom  is a city splt between  Hungary on the south bank of the Danube and Slovakia on the other.The city of Kom谩rom was formerly a separe suburban village called 脷jsz艖ny. In 1892 Kom谩rom and 脷jsz艖ny were connected with an iron bridge and in 1896 the two towns were united under the name Kom谩rom. The center was split by the newly created border of Czechoslovakia in 1920 following the Treaty of Trianon in which Hungary lost 2/3 of its territory.

From there we drove to Tata, another small town on our way but with an interesting church that I took pictures of. I think it would take volumes of albums to photograph all the churches we have seen since we moved to Poland. We finally arrived in udapest about 3PM and was greeted by our host, Kata, who was in the process of cooking a Hungarian dinner which she invited us to partake. It was excellent.

As in Vienna, parking was again a problem and we ended up driving 10 minutes north to a free parking area where we have left the car. We'll do all of our sight-seeing on foot so we don't need a car but I hate to have it out of my sight. We had no problem in Vienna and I'm hoping for the same result here.

Kata lives in a very old building with huge winding staircases that lead up to the second floor.  There is a interior balcony that goes all around the inside and her flat is on the opposite side of the balcony.  The rooms are immense in size with the typical high ceilings and wood floors. Our room is off the kitchen, has a nice bed, chairs,wi-fi and window. It's all we need.

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