Courtyard

Notes on a busy Saturday with our man in Budapest and his wife, while the sun shines on us and we can saunter about in t-shirts and sit at outdoor cafes absorbing the atmosphere.

We had breakfast at our favourite coffee stop at Deak Ferenk Ter before meeting up for a tram ride along the Danube to the huge market at Vamhaz. An hour's wander round food stalls crammed with all sorts of fresh vegetables and fruit and a stroll round stalls full of Hungarian memorabilia and, less face it, tacky souvenirs and it was time to take the no 2 tram back to st Stephens Basilika This Roman Catholic Cathedral is an arresting piece of sculpture dominating the square and the view from the foot of the road opposite.

We managed to find a table at a street cafe in the square to have lunch of a dish of cabbage and sausage washed down with Hungarian beer

Onwards then to the catch the famous no 2 tram along the river to the Margaret Bridge and a transfer to a no4 tram ( so many trams that it's an embarassment to remember how Edinburgh finds it so hard to have even one) to get to to Mr And Mrs D77's town flat.

Now we are sitting high up out on their balcony on a building on the banks of the Danube, sipping even more wine and looking at the Parliament building in front of us on the Pest side of the river and watching the tourist boats plying their trade up and down.
What an amazing view they have, a view which might even eclipse that of the Dower House for the amount of interest.
It's certainly captivating his Lordship who is happy to sit there until we go out for our evening meal.

I have been granted permission to use the house WiFi to post this blip while D77 serenades me with his piano playing. Magic!