Fabulous Easter Weekend in Budapest - Day 4

Monday 5 April 2010
Our last day in Budapest. Very sad. We ate breakfast, packed up and left our baggage at the B&B. We walked up Castle Hill and across to Buda castle. This was the first day of rain that we had, and it made it a bit more difficult to take photos. I really wanted a picture of Chain Bridge from the hill, so we walked over to the funicular and Scott helped me by holding an umbrella over my camera. He is a the best husband ever.

After the pic, we decided to take the funicular down and walk across the Chain Bridge to St Stephen’s Basilica. On the way we stopped for coffee and to pick up Scott’s stein souvenir. After that we headed to the Basilica. WOW! This has to be the most beautiful church I have seen...even above St Peter’s in Rome. The entire church is covered in the most gorgeous tiling in gold and other beautiful colours. Stunning. We happened to get there as service was ending so the ceilings were all lit up. We loved it.

Once done with admiring the beauty there we decided we needed a drink (what a surprise). Turns out the area around the Basilica is a bit posh...we eventually found a lovely Italian restaurant with a very trendy bar area to get a drink. We sat there for a while enjoying the atmosphere and then decided to walk back to the B&B to catch a taxi back to the airport to fly home.

The flight back was again uneventful...and we arrived back home safe and sound, just in time to take Hamilton and Charlie out for their night time walk. A fabulous vacation, we highly recommend Budapest!