BUDAPEST.....

Firstly, we hope everyone enjoyed their easter break. Hopefully the bunny found you wherever you were, and deposited lots of egg shaped chocolate for you to indulge in. As for us, we spent the weekend in Budapest, surrounded by amazing buildings, statues, art, goulash and sausage with bread and mustard. Also sampled some fine beers and wine, and a not so fine local herbal spirit called 'Unicum'.... and yes, it does taste as bad as it sounds...

In the distance is the Hungarian Parliament House.

This is the Chain Bridge, spanning the Danube. I think it was the first suspension bridge on the continent. Either way it's beautiful, and it links the towns of Buda and Pest.

15 k's outside Buda is a park filled with old communist statues. It's an eery kind of place, with huge bronze sculptures that were dismantled after the iron curtain fell. Capitalism or 'democracy' as it likes to be known, has taken over quite rapidly here. Often leaving the welfare of it's people in it's wake.

Here's Mezzy in the theatre district. Tulip gardens abound in springtime.

Mezzy outside an art museum on Heroes Square.

Some interesting art in the theatre district.

Sunrise skyline of a castle with a name I can neither spell nor pronounce.

Mezzy is dwarfed by a modern art installation in the City Park district.

Some buildings just off the Grand Boulevarde. An apartment here might set you back 50,000.

Climbing the spiral staircase to the top of Saint Stephens Basilica. The grandest church in the capital.

The art and sculpture inside the Basilica is extraordinary. The finest artists of the time were commissioned to fill the church with beauty. And they certainly did the job.

The base of an ancient tree in a park on the bank of the Danube.

Yet another fine building. A photographic competition filled the square below.

The Parliament Building, seen from the back. We turned the corner of a city block and were greeted with this breathtaking view.

Mezzy underneath the blossoms outside Parliament.

More blossoms, more statues.

Peeking through doors sometimes pays dividends. This entrance is a dime a dozen.