Budapest

01/05/2014

Yesterday we arrived in Budapest in the afternoon and today we took advantage of our 24 hr travel card to explore the town a bit.

May 1 worker’s rally

Although the First of May festivities caused a little disruption on the bus lines, we managed to see the Jewish quarter in Pest and visit the Holocaust Memorial – in spite of the fact that the occurrencies are well reknown, witnessing yet again what happened makes you think. And it makes you realise how humans are an extremely stupid race and on the other hand they can be extremely cruel…

The Synagogue, Budapest

After that we moved back to the Buda side of town and we had a walk up to the Castle and its grounds. Altogether a nice day walking, taking advantage of the nice weather, and fuelled only by this morning’s breakfast ;-)

We are staying at the Rubin Hotel, we decided that it was just a little more expensive than a hostel, and it’s a 4 star hotel with swimming pool, spa, and all. We already took advantage of the pool, both yesterday and today, and we intend to use it evry day ’til Sunday :-)

Old and new in Budapest

Tonight there’s been the “meet and greet” event of the TGEU Conference, the main reason why we’re here, and we could get back in touch with a few people we know from all over Europe. We had dinner with a couple of friends at the hotel restaurant, which offers very good food.

Police car sirens and ambulance sirens in Budapest are really funny – they sound just like those childen toy ray-guns ^_^

(more pix: http://goo.gl/LHia8F)

A view of Budapest from the Castle

The Danube in Budapest