Our legs hurt!!!! Budapest is a big city, and we walked lots and lots of it today. We walked to the area called Castle Hill, way across the Chain Bridge. We marched up a hill to see what was up there and to get a good view of Budapest. The National Gallery is there in an awesome monumental building housing all things Hungarian, starting in the Middle Ages. There was a little area where you could pay a small amount to try out some medieval weapons, and Jack,fafa and I all tried.
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We walked further along Castle Hill and stopped to take pictures of the beautiful Matthias Church, but decided that we really needed to come back to this area.
St. Matthias Church
We had a quick lunch/snack at a cafe overlooking the beautiful city. It was a great moment made even better by the classical musicians serenading us.
The view We meandered further around the hill and looked at the view more before climbing down. We decided to go to Margaret Island, a nice piece of land in the middle of the Danube. The island used to be a royal game reserve in the 12th century, and then began housing monasteries. Then all the religious buildings were destroyed by Turks. Now it's basically a massive park with some old historical monuments. They had these four person bikes that we decided to rent, and there we were, the Apodacas riding a massive bike cart thing around a tiny island. It was fun, needless to say.
No caption necessary The walk both to Castle Hill and Margaret Island was super long, and we walked back to our hotel exhausted. We spent a little time there and then went to dinner around the neighborhood. We found a restaurant called Don Leone, serving both Hungarian and Italian food. I had a Monte Carlo steak, which came with an egg and tomato sauce all over, plus potatoes on the bottom. Yum! Good first day in Budapest
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