Today makes it 2 weeks since I arrived in Budapest. After a great weekend at bars, a discotheque and a couple of saunas I got down to do some real tourism. Not for long though, I met a really nice guy, Istvan and have spent my time with him since!! Last weekend we went to Balaton lake and stayed the weekend in a naturist campsite which was just great although Istvan got a little too much sun; we plan to do the same this weekend and will be leaving early evening. We went up to see the Elizabeth look out tower a couple of days ago. From there you have a great view of the city, but that is all you see. It amazes me how we spend money on buildings and so on just to commemorate a Head of States visit to a place when some of that money could be spent on social injustice but it is not here that I am going to change that.

Yesterday evening we stopped in at the Greshem Palace Hotel in the centre of town. The building was supposed to have been in a really dilapidated state just 10 years ago, now it is a luxury hotel. Istvan had a cup of tea and I had some lovely dry Tokaj wine. We also had a little foie gras: delicious!!

I thought I would post some recent photos here and the put a link in the wikispace page: http://friendsphotos.wikispaces.com/