Budapest

The Mighty Mighty Danube River, with "flat" Pest on the right/East bank.

I just thought this was an interesting combination of old/new, which is a really common theme in former Soviet Bloc countries

St. Stephen's Basilica

Looking west towards Buda at night

Buda Castle

Buda Castle with the Chain Bridge in the forefront

Nagymezo utca...right in the center of things and where our apartment was located.

Memento Park!!!  After the fall of the communists in Hungary, they put all the monuments of Soviet Realist Art in a park outside of town!

Myself and Lenin

Marx and Engels

What are these boots?  Back in 1956 with the Hungarian uprising the first thing they did was take down the statue of Stalin.  All they left were his boots.

After the morning at Memento Park, we spent the afternoon at the "House of Terror", which really should be called the "Museum of Hungarian History during Nazi and Soviet Occupation"

Ballet in the evening (Fille la mal Gardee) where we met and then went to dinner with a couple nice Spanish guys.