Budapest day 3 – Budapest, a city split in two by the river, and 9 bridges

August 25th 2008 – 12:22 pm – Budapest (Hungary)

Yesterday I went to the highest place in town: the Grellert Hill. Our Apartment is in Vaci utca, and it’s a long walk up to the hill. Grellert Hill is 235 meters high and offers a nice view of both Buda and Pest. I crossed a white bridge to get to Buda, and then walked up hundreds of steps to get on the top. By the way, on the top there’s a fortress built in 1849 and never used, and there’s also a fake Nazi bunker which, in fact, was not used because the Allies regained Budapest well before the bunker and the aircraft defenses were completed.

Statue on top of Gellert Hill in Buda

The bunker museum with a dozen of wax statues is not worth the ticket price (1200 Ft – almost 5 euro!). In the evening we went to a pub called Godor Club, a nice atmosphere with many young people and not too many tourists, 5 minutes walk to the most famous church in Budapest.

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