Getting Buda and Pest together

That should be easy; Buda is the city on the West side of the Danube, while Pest sits on the opposite bank, but together they’ve made Budapest as they were reunited to create the capital of Hungary. 

After the previous evening “primer”, as bad as it was, we decided to take our chances on bikes in the morning and only five people out of hundred and forty passengers chose this riding option.

The others preferred the comfort and the stability of their tour bus as well as the incompetence of the previous evening’s tour guide who returned for an encore.

The bike tour was fun and led by Loïc, a young Frenchman, on very rudimentary bikes, without helmet and dodging both the traffic and the Budapest Marathon that was running at the same time.

Thank God, we made it back to the cruise ship unscathed and managed to enjoy most of the ride. In the afternoon, we began exploring “Vinca” the main tourist street and its terrible, globalist shopping options of big name retailers.

This said our first impression was quite positive. After dinner, we attending an evening of traditional folklore music and dancing in the city and were literally “dead-meat” when we returned to the ship well past our “normal” bedtime hour.