Budapest; Friday, 02 August, 2013

First stop of the morning was back up the hill to the castle to have a long explore through the labarynths that are underneath many of the buildings at the fisherman’s bastion end of the complex. As with other underground experiences on my trip in the oppressive summer heat the glorious cool temperatures down in the caves had attracted a large number of tourists to become moles for the morning.

I finally left the labarynth when I actually realised I was shivering in just a T-shirt and shorts so I headed back up into the wall of heat that hit as soon as you left the caves and walked the short distance over to the Matthias church, the main religious building in the castle.

Having taken in the sights there I caught the bus back over the Danube to Pest and visited the main Church of Hungary the Basilica of St Stephen.

I had a long look around the church, before taking the lift up to the base of the dome to take in the views of the city, the castle and the distant hills.

Back down on ground level, and after a very nice lunch in the shadow of the basilica I caught the bus out to the Statue park on the outskirts of town to take in the collection of Soviet era statues dumped here in the early 1990’s as Hungary moved rapidly from its communist past.

I spent quite a bit of time at the Statue park, and by the time I got back to the city centre it was time for dinner, so I found a decent looking restaurant just back from the Danube and ate there.

After dinner I headed back to the hotel to start the process of packing, again.

Weather

Sunny Sunny
AM PM
Phew! What a scorcher (more than 40C, 104F)
42ºC/108ºF