Today we explored Budapest, by foot! Seems like a nice idea but it was a long walk. We managed to get lost straight away ending up at the station that we had arrived at the previous day, the other side of the city we wanted to go to. Then I decided to take us down a back road which lead into a pretty rubbish park and had buildings that looked like they were finding it hard to stand right.
I however did then find a very pretty square for us to stop for lunch and then followed this up by taking in some churches, fountains and the National Museum.
As we travelled over the bridge to Buda, the sun became more fierce and made walking that bit harder, plus the amount of water we bought throughout the day was quite impressive. A quick wander of the castle grounds was followed up by exploring the largest church in Budapest, which featured some great tips on restoring relics.
Once crossing "The Chain" Bridge back into Pest we walked beside the Danube taking in the "Shoes on the Danube Promenade" a memorial to the murdered Jews of the 2nd World War, plus a beautiful sunset behind Buda before heading across to the largest Parliament building in Europe.
After this feet tiring day we went back to the Hostel for another home cooked meal and then the task of planning our next step. We had planned to book the following 2 nights in Vienna, but it was only now that we realised how expensive Austria was going to be and it also seemed pretty booked up, guessing that Oktober Fest had something to do with it. So in the end after 3 hours of searching we decided the best route was to go back to Bratislava (both of us were pretty happy about this) and then to do 2 nights in Vienna and only 1 in Salzberg before Munich.
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