Thursday, February 3, 2011

All together now

After Kevin, Fred and John FINALLY pulled themselves away from IMG_5626Belgian 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.IMG_5630

IMG_5639After 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.

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