Today we concentrated our sight seeing to the Buda side, starting on castle hill. It was much of the same as yesterday with big, pompous buildings and statues of important people. Although it was nice, one of the most beautiful sights was the parliament building from across the river. Some sdectio0ns of very decorative walls next to the Mathias church were also impressive.
On the way down from castle hill we had some lunch at a local café and I had some pasta with poppy. It turned out to be pasta with a big pile of sweet poppy seeds on top, not so nice for lunch, or in any way actually. From there we ventured on to Gellert hill with the large freedom monument on the top and an old citadel. But it was a small detour on the way up that was the nicest. A small church built in to a system of caves, a crucifix and an altar closed in by bare rocks.
We got a small audio tour that was rather bad but the solemn atmosphere, mild temperature and beautiful light inside was great. Later on, when we headed down from the hill the clock was nearing five and the market hall that we were supposed to see was closed. Instead we stopped at a café to plan our future trips and walked slowly back to the hostel.
Tonight we will have some Hungarian/Thai fusion for dinner and join the hostels daily pub crawl, I suspect that Jethro Tulls Budapest might be the theme song for tonight.
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