Home - Again

Our Viking Longboat was parked
along side this historic bridge
in Budapest

On October 22nd Dave and I flew to Budapest and began a 16 day trip with Viking River Cruses through northern Europe, ending up in Amsterdam.  They call this The Grand European Cruise.  We got home late Saturday night.

We're feeling like two young lovers  after a fantastic honeymoon.  I'm aching all over and Dave's in the hospital!

Budapest House of Parliament.  We have
a Parliament House in Orlando but it's
nothing like this. 

Actually he just got out of the hospital.  He picked up a bug a few days ago, then, after a grueling 20 hour trip home he fell and hit his head.  Since neither of us had the strength to get him up I called 911.  But after spending the night, getting his head stapled and getting thoroughly checked out, we're back home - again.

But I digress.

Budapest is an astoundingly beautiful city.   As you probably know it used to be two cities: Historic Buda,  on the east bank of the River Danube and upscale, cosmopolitan, Pest on the west.  This was news to me.

Budapest, with over a million people,  is one of the richest and most beautiful cities in the world.  What a great place to start this once in a lifetime journey,


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