Saturday, January 28, 2012

Budapest

From Delft I took a train to Eindhoven station then a bus to the airport, and finally a plane to Budapest, Hungary.  It's really a beautiful city.  The Danube cuts it in half; on one side there the huge, ornate parliament building, and on the other there a castle up on a limestone hill.  Connecting the two is an impressively carved cable bridge.

Monastary in the rocks

Moholt and the City (looking from Buda to Pest side)

Moholt finds love

St Matthaius Cathedtal

Me at the Castle (Buda Side) 
The Buda-side Castle District
The city was beautiful, but one of my favorite things in Budapest was the caving.  The city lies on sediment from the river, which overlies old limestone from the Tethys Sea.  That limestone is where Marcio and I went caving.


Crawling through the caves

Marcio in the caves
After the caving it was off to Vienna, the last new city on our list!

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