Budapest, Hungry: a city definately worth visiting.

So, we took a Eurolines bus from Vienna to Budapest and were told on the way, that there was some right wing problems and we should stay out of crowds at nighttime. But as we talked to others, we realized that info is like the US Embassy reports and made to just warn naive tourists of dangers. It seems that on the 50th anniversary of the uprising against Soviet rule, the country is still torn. There was violence between protestors and police and some injuries were sustained. The city continues and we are not in any danger.

We went to the Museum of Terror, a very artistic and interesting museum about Hungarian history housed in the building that the Nazis and then the Soviets occupied. It was very difficult to go into the basement, where the interrogations were done, but it was the real thing. We learned a lot.

Our other favorite thing. The baths!!!! Yes, we took a lovely dip in the old baths, housed in the original buildings from many years ago. Budapest has many natural sulfur hotsprings and the pools were a series of very cool, warm, hot, steam, sauna, showers, fountains, indoor, outdoor. It was great fun, but a nap was needed afterwards.

Tonight, we hope to hit the town and maybe go to a club. We did go shopping at some great second hand clothes stores and walked up to the fort around the Castle and took trams, trolleys, and metros. More to come.

In case you are curious, we are heading to Pecs next (south of here) and then back to Vienna to take our Star Alliance flight to Turkey. We don't have a solid plan in Turkey yet, but we will. Then we head to Germany (through Frankfurt) and we plan to go to Berlin, Prague, and Krakow (maybe Warsaw if we have time) before heading back to FL for a week and then off the St Croix for a month.

More to come! Sara and Ethan