It was a relief to get off the train away from the irritating woman in our compartment who spent the last 2 hours on and off the phone with her super loud phone voice. I considered suggesting she open the window, so she could simply shout to them as they'd probably hear her... Anyway, the train was a bit late in and we followed the Americans we met earlier in search of a cash machine so we could get the metro. We weren't sure of the exchange rate so seeing an option of 9000 forints is a bit daunting - turns out it's about £25. When we got to our place it started weeing it down so we cooked tea and stayed in.
On Sunday we went for a walk to look at the market building, then went to the fortress hill and got caught in the middle of a thunderstorm. We went out for a cheap dinner then went for a walk around the parliament building, and mooched back to have a look at the Holocaust memorial on the banks of the Danube (which by the way was already looking dangerously high) and sat and watched the sun set.
On Monday we spent the day in the Szechenyi baths. It was about 4500 forints each for the day and a cabin to change in - about £12. There are about 16/17 pools, with three of them outside, with temperatures ranging from about 20c-40c - awesome stuff. It was a bit daunting as we weren't really sure what to do, and without my glasses I'm practically blind - it made trying to find the women's showers a bit interesting. The inside pools are all quite small with varying temperatures and you just sit around ignoring the eggy smell. The outside ones are more swimming pool like, but one is about 30c and one 38c.
On Tuesday we went to have a look at the castle and then the Fisherman's Bastion. I'm getting sick of people asking me to take pictures for them with fancy cameras and iphones - as though I have a clue how to use them. Anyway, the sun came out again and it was really nice, and we got another view of the rising river. Later, we went to one of the fancy cafes and had a cake and coffee and later we went out to dinner at a Hungarian restaurant. In the evening we nipped back down to the river to see the water level rising and coming over the lower pathways.
We traveled to Bratislava on Wednesday. The women gave us 2 return tickets instead of two singles, but as it was only about 16 euros each I'm not bothered - besides, if this flooding malarky gets worse we might have to return and reroute our journey north. We got a view of some flooded roads and swollen rivers on the way...
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