Last day in Budapest

Well you may have noticed I am posting these blogs all on the same day. That is because this is the first free time we have had - apart from those requiring the support of the coffee lounge and bar of course. We are sailing all day today and will arrive in a few hours in Vienna after passing through Slovakia.

But back to yesterday. After breakfast we were all sent off on buses for a tour of the city of Budapest. We were accompanied by an excellent local guide who gave us a wonderful and at times very funny spiel about each site. These people show great strength in the way they make light of some of the horrrors of their history  - they have lived though tough times and now are heading for a bright future hopefully.

In the afternoon the four of us walked along the River to the Gellert Baths. These are hot mineral baths inside a magnificent old building. After negotiating a maze of staircases and odd corridors and interpreting signs in Hungarian with absolutely NO help from the lady who we thought may have been employed for exactly that reason - apparently not- we all managed to meet up in a both-sex area with a large cold pool and a warm pool. Di, Kay and I then bravely bid Ron farewell and ventured into the womens only area where there was a large 36 degree pool and a 38 degree pool as well as open showers and a very, very hot steam room. This was all very enjoyable because of the beautiful tiled rooms and stained glass ceilings and despite the variety of naked women of ALL ages and SHAPES that were our bathing companions. We modestly wore our swimmers of course and tried to appear comfortable with being surrounded with naked nannas.