Hungary Day 4

On Wednesday, we went together on a walk through central Pest. We started at the upper end of Vaci Utca, walked a bit along the Danube, wandered down and around Vaci Utca, saw City Hall, saw a nice park, and ended up in the main market. The highlight of the walk, at least for me, was the Parisian Gallery. It's an abandoned shopping center with ornate woodwork and stained glass that seems to be pretty much forgotten in a really bustling part of the city. Tim says he read somewhere that it's fallen into disrepair and is too costly to maintain. After the walk, we went back up to the beginning and had some coffee/hot chocolate at Cafe Geraud before I took my leave of Tim and Maya to head back to the conference. The two of them went to a little cafe tucked in behind city hall (Cafe Gerloczy). Maya ordered goulash again, which she liked, but when she caught a glimpse of Tim's pasta with salmon, she insisted on a trade. After lunch, they headed to the art museum housed in Buda castle. Surprisingly, they *both* enjoyed that. They came back to the hotel in the late afternoon because I had fortuitously come across two additional free invitations to the conference banquet, which was dinner on a boat ride down the Danube, complete with folk music and dancing. It was a blast.