here's another shot of the inside of the basilica...just amazing doncha think...it was huge and had a chapel in the back that also stunning....with the relic of St. Stephen's hand...you paid some money and they would light it up for you...just a bit bizarre in the whole scheme of things....
we spent some time at this cool cafe outside of the basilica...it was called the montmarte and we had a great conversation with the owner who was israeli and had been living in budapest for over 10 years...and loves it....
this is my money shot from budapest...we were sitting at the famous cafe named gerbeauds....drinking liquid chocolate...yummy...wondering where we were headed next...there were live musicians on the street infront of us and the sun was just starting to go behind the buildings of the square...it was a great stop....
we ended up walking to the parilament building...this is an amazing building but the site of a huge protest while we were there...i guess the current leader lied to get himself into office...and people were calling for his resignation...also, a few days after we left was the 50th anniversary of when there was a hungairn revolt against the russians....things were never as bad there under communism as it was in other places because of this...or so they say...but there was to be a memorial...i heard there were riots too...ugh...politics...this is a shot of parilament from across the river...just a stunning building...more soon...no more pictures....grrrrrrrrr...
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