What can I say? Budapest is everything you have ever heard and more. The city is a combination of old Prague,..still recovering from years of neglect and desperately in need of constant reconstruction and Tijuana,..full of sales people trying to get you into their shop with a "special deal just for you". We did stay in a great little apartment right in the heart of the city. The apartment was in one of the alcoves that are com
mon in the architecture of the city. The lower level was full of shops,..a woman's hat shop, a button store, a coffee shop and a cigar store. The upper levels were all housing. Neat, clean and cheap. We were about 100 meters from the Danube, the same distance from the subway and 20 meters from the main shopping street. We didn't spent a lot of time shopping. Instead we went to museums and to Buda castle. We bought transportation passes so we could just hop on and off the buses, trams and metro. It was great fun and certainly worth a trip if you ever get close. For us it was only a 5 hour train trip. 
This is outside the museum and in a big courtyard. Above is the view of Buda castle, a great area filled with lots of various museums including a great one of just Hungarian art. That was fabulous!
