One might notice I'm saying little about Tokaj. Everything was fabulous. The people are friendly, the wine is excellent, the food is excellent. We weren't there nearly long enough. I hope to spend a week there in the future. We promised the proprietor of Huli Panzio we would stay there next time we're in Tokaj, but for more than one night. Some day we will make good on that, and there will be more Tokaji drunk. And perhaps we will have a way to tote out more than 4 or 5 bottles each.

Tokaj station patform, looking southwest.

James was adamant that we visit Citadel Hill. We didn't have time for much of anything in Buda, but that's the one thing he wanted to see. Accordingly, we took the tram down the river and exited near the Hotel Gellert. The climb was very unkind to Liz's knees and to my general lack of good health, but the view from the hill is excellent.

Our objective the following day was to see a bit of Buda. We didn't have nearly enough time to see much of it, but we wanted to at least see a couple of things. First, we needed to visit Keleti pályaudvar to buy train tickets for our Monday trip to Tokaj. We had a bit of trouble finding anyone who spoke English at the station on a Sunday, but eventually we were able to find the train we needed on schedule, find our way to the right window and buy the tickets in very broken Hungarian.

Following a bit of rest and a change of shoes, we went to Arriba! Taqueria for dinner. Arriba! is a new Cali-Mex joint in between Oktagon and Nyugati tér. The food was solid California taco stand style, better than we can get in South Florida. James remarked that it is much better than Czech Mex. The plus is better beer than similar joints in the US. I've never been much of a Mexican beer fan, so I relished the opportunity to have some good Eastern European beer with my burrito.

In which I attempt to get back on track uploading photos from our spring trip to Eastern Europe, before our fall trip to Taiwan.

All photos as per previous posts (Pentax K-1000, Pentax A 35-70/4 lens, Kodak Ultra Color 400 film).

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Eric posted a link on the Florida Panthers Message Board to this site, so I just had to go play around with it.

At the end of Andrássy utcá is Heroes' Square. The square contains many statues of mustachioed men. All photos taken 10 May 2008, with the same Pentax K-1000 with A 35-70/4 zoom as the last batch, again on Kodak Ultra Color 400.