Spent our last day in Budapest schlepping around and enjoying the sunshine that has finally emerged.

Started off with a trip to the post office – armed with bags of our cycling clothes (feels like parting with old friends) and maps/guide books- about 5 kilos in total to offload. Post office was packed and each of the 6 queues had different signs (in Hungarian only). David and I hedged or bets and lined up in different queues that seemed to have people holding letters – I got to the counter first and the lady just held up her hand and kept saying “no English here” – I tried my best pathetic look hoping someone in the queue would speak English & help us out – to no avail. So we scurried back to the hotel bags in hand. Hotel managed to find us a box and string (yes string) to pack our things and have guaranteed to send it for us – we handed it over looking like a macramé creation wondering if we will ever see it again.

Taking advantage of the sunshine, our first stop was Momento Park – an outdoor museum on the outskirts of Budapest where they have re-homed all the communist monuments of what they now call the ‘Triple Terror’ – Stalin, Lennin & Mao. Man these dictators like BIG sculptures!

From there we visited Market Hall – very touristy – not dissimilar to the Vic Market- but housed in a fabulous old building that is worth the visit.


Finished up the day with one last Hungarian feast in an outdoor restaurant on the fabulous Vaci utca. Heading to Paris tomorrow for the last leg of our journey.