This post will have discussion followed by pictures multiple times.

We started our first day in Budapest by visiting City Park and Heroes Square. Hungary unlike her neighbors was settled by Magyar tribes, supposedly seven in all. Though archeological evidence indicates the presence of Jews before the arrival of the Magyars. Pictures are of area around Heroes Square.

Our next adventure was to where Franz Liszt lived at the Old Academy of Music in his later years. As a young man he wanted to join the priesthood but was talked out of it by his father. Liszt never married but had three children by one of his mistresses. Pictures taken in suite of rooms used by Liszt and the concert room where we heard a number of his pieces.

In the evening on the way to dinner we were taken to a ruin bar. A number of older structures were going to be demolished but some enterprising people talked the authorities into letting them maintain the buildings and use them for bars. We had a glass of the Hungarian equivalent of plum schnapps.

Budapest actually consists of two parts Buda and Pest separated by the Danube River. We stayed on the Pest side where most things were located. On the second day we went up to Buda Hill to see the Royal Palace, Matthias Church and Fisherman’s Bastion. More pictures of these sights and views looking across at Pest.