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I could hear my sister coughing and banging around before 05:30, so I think she was eager to be going home after yesterday after yesterday’s sickness. I got up at 06:00, and took my time getting ready, tidying up, and doing the washing up one last time in this apartment. Our Welcome Pickups taxi was booked for 07:20, but we assumed they’d be trying to pick us up from the wrong place since ‘Miles H …
Our plan for today was to see everything that was left to see in Budapest, but the thing about plans is that they don't always go, well, to plan…
This was the second our planned trips out, visiting Eger, and the nearby thermal baths.
Today we'd got a pre-booked tour of a few towns along the Danube, with a river cruise to get us back to Budapest. We'd heard there'd be fireworks in the evening so though we might try to see those too.
Our day was starting with a guided tour of the Hungarian Parliament building, inspired by the one in Westminster. We then wanted to spend the afternoon exploring Castle Hill, but would the weather let us?
Another adventure begins, starting with a flight to Budapest as the World Athletics Championships were about to begin there during the school holidays, and the National Day holiday weekend.
After going to Berlin and travelling around Germany in 2021, and then to some Italian locations in 2022, I’d unintentionally repeated two of the countries from my European trip in 2009. When I realised this I felt it’d be nice symmetry to then visit Greece in 2023. Whilst that was a nice idea, I didn’t really want to do this trip without including the authentic Athens Marathon which is a bucket li …
