Buda ... pest!

It is Monday morning in Budapest!  Or should I say Buda ... pest?  I've learned that there were once two cities, one named Buda and the other named Pest, and they were joined to make the Budapest we now all know and love.

We got into town last night, enjoyed seeing some of the city from George's high-speed van - like Hero Square and the palace and the Chain Bridge, and then onto a city bus and off to a most amazing Hungarian dinner.  It was another enormous meal.  Carrie had oven-baked stuffed camembert with lemon-olive asparagus, Lian had Bavarian white sausage with sweet mustard and a pretzel, and, get ready, I had crispy knuckle of pork with Bavarian cabbage and napkin dumplings.  Whoowee, you haven't eaten until you've had knuckle of pork.  (And no jokes about Hungary and hungry; they've heard them all.)  But today we'll walk it off, exploring the city.

Thanks to all of you who've emailed us.  I understand some of you are having problems posting comments to our blog.  Greg and I disabled that feature so that people couldn't argue with what we said - ha ha.  (Seriously, I don't know why it's not working.)

You might want to check Sarah' blog today, to see what a blessing Lian was in Ukraine.

Well, time to step out of our lovely B&B and out into Buda ... pest!

Dave