Budapest

We acknowledged our children's hardship and let them sleep in this morning as we all skipped breakfast. As we arrived last night at midnight, we didn't care about getting up early too...
We started our day with an early lunch and simply walked from Pest to Buda and back to Pest again. The view and the architecture is amazing.

20 years ago, Thijs and I (young and unmarried) visited Hungary and I don't remember Hungary being so European as it is now.
We made a trip (by car) to the Balkan and started in Berlin 8 months after the wall collapsed with Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' Concert. (What an amazing experience that was! And yes, we went there without tickets but as the gates opened, we were able to watch the concert with 250.000 other people on former no-mans-land).
During our travels through Yugoslavia (which would fall into war only a few years later) we travelled to Hungary passed Budapest, but never stayed here. I'm so delighted to be here now with the same guy and 2 of our children...

We took the children to the House of Terror, where they learned more about Hungary in Fascist (WW II) and Communist dictatorial regimes in their history. The dungeons in the former Headquarters of the Secret Service made quite an impression on them.

I wished I could tell the children that humans learn from their mistakes. But we don't...

Budapest from Buda-side

Noelle's lizard from Buda to Pest across the bridge

The 'Brooklin Bridge of Budapest'

Parliament

Hungarian Flag with the hole in the Middle

The hole in the Hungarian Flag originates from the Hungarian Revolution in 1956