Archive for July, 2004
London – Friday
We checked out of the hotel about 1000 and went over to Covent Garden for some breakfast. I just went for my usual croissant option but John went for sticky maple syruppy waffles instead. When he came down from his sugar rush, we got the tube over to South Kensington to go to the Natural [...]
London – Thursday
After Budapest, we still had a few days holiday left so we decided to have a night in London. We travelled down on the Thursday and arrived at Kings Cross about 1330. From there, we went straight to Leicester Square by tube to buy tickets for the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s “The Bible” from the half [...]
Budapest – Tuesday
We had to be back at the hotel at 1330 for the minibus back to the airport so after breakfast, we decided we only had time for a quick trip up to Margit Island – the biggest island in the middle of the Danube. We got the HEV from Batthyany metro stop up to Arhad [...]
Budapest – Monday
We made it up in time for breakfast on the Monday and it was very nice: we sat in the conservatory part of the breakfast room and the buffet selection was good. Unbelievably full yet again, we went up to the Royal Palace on the Funicular (near the Buda side of the Chain Bridge). The [...]
Budapest – Sunday
On Sunday, we decided to continue a tradition we started the year before in Prague: namely, oversleeping because we forgot to adjust the time on my phone which we used as an alarm clock. We missed breakfast but it wasn’t a big deal because we were still digesting the big meal from the night before. [...]
Budapest – Saturday
We had a decent flight out of Leeds Bradford – departing at 1030 so not a hideously early morning – and arrived in Budapest (via Amsterdam) at about 1600. I had already researched the different transport options into the city and we decided to use the airport minibus service. It was cheap (about £7 return [...]