Day Eight - Jun 5, 2017
Budapest, Hungary
Daily Didactic
We got up and headed to the Market Square, which weirdly was closed at 10:00am. We stopped at a cafe for some coffee and wifi and a little Googling turned up that today is Wit Monday, a national holiday. Altering our plans, we decided to skip the Parliament tour we had on the list and head to Városliget Park. It would be a nice 45 minute walk to the park, which sports museums, thermal baths, and Europe's oldest zoo. The walk was refreshing and entertaining. Budapest is ridiculously beautiful. We stopped at a cafe just inside the park for a little lunch (and Hungary's ill fated take on an IPA) and settled on the Budapest Zoo. That may seem odd because we are not big captive animal fans, but the zoo reportedly had some architecture Theresa was excited about. We should have thought this through, but it was about 90 degrees on the concrete when we headed into the zoo. Tropical animals were unfazed, lots of monkeys and such. The rest were hiding from the weather and the art nouveau structures were fewer and farther between than expected. That said, we enjoyed it but wouldn't recommend it. We looked around a little more of Városliget Park, decided it was too hot for thermal baths, and then let the weather head aim us toward the 12 foot cielings of our flat. On Klara's advice, we took the metro back. Beautifully tiled, word is this was the first metro in Europe. It also made short order of our hike home. Theresa racked up another killer mid day nap and Brian worked on website stuff. In the early evening we found some great Italian dinner with some terrible service. We were once told not to take Czech waitstaff attitudes personally, we are feeling like that must go for Hungarian waiters too. We took a late night walk on the Danube, across the green bridge to the Buda side. The view was just as awesome as we had been lead to believe.
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