Budapest

On Christmas Day we left Gdansk for Warsaw for one night, then we took a train down to Bratislava Slovakia.

After a 2 night stop in Bratislava, Slovakia, we took a three hour train south to Budapest Hungary. Budapest was one of my favorite cities in Europe. It had a lot interesting sites and attractions to see. Hungarian is a very hard language to try and learn (even harder than Polish). Luckily though many people spoke English as a second language so it wasn' that hard to communicate.

One of the interesting sites that was in Budapest was the Hungarian Parliament. Hungary has the second largest Parliament builiding, only Englands is bigger. I went on a tour of it with My Dad and his collegue. It was interesting inside, since it is a different government than America. It looks really beautiful from the outside. From accross the river. I' ve posted a picture of it below.

Another interesting site in Hungary was the Fisherman's Bation. Its an overview where you can see most of Budapest from the height. The first day we went there it was so foggy we couldn't see anything so we tried again the next day. It was clear and the view was absolutely spectacular. It's even better at night. I've posted 2 pictures below one of what the Fisherman's Bastion looks like, and a picture of the view from it.

During Communist times in Hungary, The communists would put up statues showing themselves as heroes or leaders. After the Hungarians became free, instead of just destroying the statues, they moved all the statues and moved them to a park where people could see them. It was appropriately called Statue Park. It also called Momento Park also. It has over fifty statues from the communists. Ive posted a couple of my favorite statues from the park.

We spent New Years Eve in Budapest and it was an exciting experience. People were blowing off little fireworks on the sidewalks, and it was crazy so we decided to go back to the rented apartment for our safety, where we watched the countdown and the fireworks on TV.

My next blog will be written by the end of this week and it will tell you about my families trip to Scotland and Ireland.