Holiday Teaser

B and I just returned last night from our first out-of-Germany trip: We spent 4 days in the terrific city of Budapest, Hungary. There is the temptation to do a full-blown travelogue, but that tends to make people's eyes glaze over. At the moment, there are a lot of pictures to be edited/cleaned up/sweetened, and they will probably be posted to an off-site photo blog like Picassa and liked to from here on this blog. But for now, I'll just say that I would recommend Budapest to anybody in a heartbeat-- it's not as well known as, say, Prague, and that's the hook-- before (re)development completely engulfs it and turns this city into a clean-scrubbed, Disney-fied version of its former self, there is much to recommend. But for now, enjoy this one photo-- that's the view from our hotel window of the Hungarian Parliment building at night (click on photo for enlarged view). While we did not find Budapest to be a hyper cheap "bargain," we paid only 70 Euros a night for a 4-Star hotel with Danube views like this. More to come!