It's Buda PESCH not Budapest:)

It's a city!  It's two cities!  Split by the Danube River.  The Hungarian city of Budapest has been a destination "want" for about 10 years.  We're finally here!  And the hubs got a cold.  So day one was spent indoors mostly.  We did go to the pub and grabbed a beer and then Face Timed our Sci Fi book club in Denver, which was reviewing one of my all time faves, Dan Simmons "Hyperion".  So that was good.

Today, hoping he gets up before 10AM so we can see the Castle, the River Memorial of bronze shoes, and the City walking tour, followed by one of the Baths.  We are staying in a remarkable apartment with 13 to 15 foot ceilings, beautiful herringbone wooden floors and a washing machine!  Yes, that exclamation point is deserved, as so few apartments in Europe have washers, and even fewer have dryers.  We have a spacious 500 sq foot or so, an extra room with a twin, a big TV that works with our Chromestick (Yay, caught up on Dr. Who!), and a full on gas stove.

First day here we rode in on Europe's oldest Metro line to get to our place.  It was so old!  And then we had dinner at an authentic Hungarian Restaurant and had pate, more pate, sausages, cucumber salad (OMG YUM) and a veal stew with paprika and noodles.  I also had seared duck liver with fried fingerling potatoes.  We split some delicious local Pinot Noir and all in it was under $80.  With a chocolate yum dessert thing as well.  I think we're going to like it here.