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the Castle and Fishermen's Bastion

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A trip I had wanting to go on for a while. And with a promise to my Nephew to take him with me on a travel sometime, this became the one.

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the Castle and Fishermen's Bastion

April 21, 2008

they were so nice here, and charged the battery for Kristoffers new camera

Good morning at 9.30am... AGAIN.. lol. We started to seem like a bunch of sleepyheads. hahaha. But we got up and got ready. Had some breakfast and was out the door by 11.

We went over to Oktogón and took the metro to Bacsjy-Zsilinzsky út. Gudny had spotted a photostore nearby the first day, and wanted to get some more memorycards. She also wanted to buy a camera for her son. She got him a nice Canon cam and we both got MS cards. From there we walked down and stopped at a restaurant called Replay. They were nice enough to charge the battery in Kristoffers new cam, so we sat down and got something to drink in the meanwhile.

When the battery was charged, we went on and walked over the Chain Bridge.

... so we had to get something to drink while waiting...

And from there we headed up to the Castle. The Castle is really old, but only the exterior remains. After burning completely 4 times, there's absolutely nothing left of the interior. Too bad actually. Lot of history is lost in those fires. We got some nice shots of the building, the Mythical bird and also the view over the river and Pest.

The Presidents residence sits right next to the Castle and are also quite impressing. We walked passed and followed a trail over to Fishermen's Bastion and St. Michaels Church. The church were undergoing renovations, but the Bastion was amazing. Now this is a construction I liked a lot. Most of the buildings I saw in Budapest were quite grey and dirty, but the Bastion was white and the arcitecure like nothing I've ever seen before. And the view from there were also marvelous.

We spent quite some time up there. Also much due to the great weather.. :o))

When we were on our way back, we decided to take this sort of cart that run up and down from the street to the Castle. As we had walked up, we found that it would be fun to ride this down. It's pretty steep, and you get a great view, although we regretted sitting in the back on, and not the front one.. lol.

Being back on streetlevel, we walked across the Chain Bridge again, and wanted to take the tram over to the Market. As we stood there, waiting for the tram we saw this babystroller sign on the sidewalk. Funny.. they have they're own place waiting for the tram.. lol

The tram ride lasted for only a few minutes, and we got off at the end stop, and walked over to this market our guide from the boat had bragged so much about.

As we were pretty hungry by now, we decided to get something to eat. The only restaurant we found was on the second floor, called Fakanál Étterem and was also the only place to sit down to eat. There were other food stalls, there as well, but without seating options. So we ordered our food, and took our time. But as we sat there, eating, we noticed that they were starting to close up? Huh? It was 4.45pm and they were closing? What kind of restaurant is this we thought. But then, as we started to look out the windows and onto rest of the market... everything was closing. So much for wanting to check out the market... lol. Oh well, we just agreed to go back and see it the next day.

We checked the map, and found that there were a blue metro line not too far from the market. We went over and jumped on, and jumped off after 2 stops, and the on again to the yellow line and took that to Oktogón. Then we walked home... Another day full of adventures was over :o)