Budapest - all the pictures

Day 1
Arriving Budapest.  Hot, beautiful day. Walking around Vaci utca shopping district.  Drinks and snacks at Gerbeaud Cafe.  Back to hotel to check in and rest.  Metro to Kati's to visit with her family.  Dinner at Dunacorso, one of Bela's favorite restaurants.
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Day 2
Another hot, gorgeous day. We walked a bit, down to O utca to see if we could find Grandmother's old apartment.  Then we walked down Andrassy utca before taking the old metro to Hosok Tere with the monuments of all the Hungarian Kings.  We walked a bit into the park to see the statue of "Anonymous".  Then we ate a delicious meal at Robinson restaurant on the lake in the park. It was too hot to go to the zoo, so we went back to the hotel to rest before heading out for drinks and dinner along the Danube.
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Day 3
Bela's interment ceremony at Budapest Újköztemető, the large cemetery.  Kati planned a lovely ceremony with flowers and music and a priest.  Tibor and Laci and George and Esther also joined us.  Then lunch at the Blue Tomato on Pannonia utca, another favorite Bela restaurant we ate at quite a bit in 2001 and 2004.  After a rest at the hotel (with air conditioning!), we had drinks and dinner on a barge on the Danube where Alex wanted to go.
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Schaffer ceremony pictures

Day 4
93 degrees and hot hot hot.  We went to Castle Hill for a quick visit and walk around to Matyas Templom (Matthias Church) and Fisherman's Bastion.  Then we went to see the hunting fountain, and took the funicular back down the hill and walked across the Chain Bridge.  Then a quick lunch on Vaci utca before heading to the airport and back to Paris, where it was cloudy, cool, and rainy.
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