All together now

After Kevin, Fred and John FINALLY pulled themselves away from Belgian Beer, we met up and headed out into the city together.  We decided to start out by exploring the Castle Hill area a little more.  Earlier, Kevin and the guys had walked down to the Royal Palace area before heading to the Weapons Museum, so we started out with a more thorough exploration of the area.

A little history lesson – Budapest was the only city during WWII to get bombed by both the Allies and the Germans.  74% of the city was reduced to rubble.  THEN, even more of it was destroyed in 1956 during the “Get Rid of the Russians” debacle. For a city that was 74% destroyed, they did an excellent job of repairing it.  However, they did miss a few buildings.

After we walked around the Royal Palace, and I took a few photos of the city during the time period that photographers call  “The Magic Hour”, the guys decided that they had the perfect place for us to grab dinner – the Belgian Restaurant.  Apparently, they were not content with not having drank the entire menu and decided a little more exploration was in order.  I developed a love for Belgian Beer during a work sponsered trip to Belgium with Doyle and was of course game. While the beer menu wasn’t nearly as extensive as the menu at the place in Ghent I went with Doyle, it was huge.  And in true Belgian style, each beer came in its own, specially designed glass.