Tuesday 4 June 2013 - Budapest

We started the day with breakfast at Café Gerlóczy, a favourite meeting place for Budapesters and the blurb boasts it has been voted the best café in Budapest, what I say is that the building which dates back to the 1890's has retained all of its olde-worlde charm, the service was great and the breakfast was delicious to boot.

Next we climbed Gellért Hill to the Citadel, great views back down to the Danube and Budapest. At the top we had a look around the WWII bunker, now a museum with war memorabilia, photo's and wax work dummies, surprisingly very interesting.

Lunch was a kebab back in District VII and after we got a taxi to take us out to the Celeritas Shooting Club where Rob had booked us in for the Shoot 'Em All package, which was firing 22 different guns and a total of 200 rounds. The Desert Eagle .44 and Magnum .44 (Dirty Harry's gun) were both astoundingly loud and powerful hand guns, more like hand canons.

In the evening we walked to an Hungarian pub called Kiadóm, a great find with plenty of atmosphere, it seemed to be frequented by the locals, which is always a good sign. The menu had a great choice of Hungarian dishes and the food was delicious for "pub grub"

Tomorrow we say goodbye to Budapest and make our way to Bratislava. I arrived in Budapest not sure about this city, yes quite a few of the buildings are in need of repair and there is litter in the streets and at night some areas can feel intimidating but I have to say that I have grown to love this city, it is not at all pretentious "what you see is what you get" and it is a "great" city.