Day 8, Saturday (Last day in Budapest)
This morning we took the metros to Margerite Island. It is a small island in the middle of the Danube between Buda and Pest. It is named after a 13th century princess. Her father was losing a war at the time and had also lost his first two daughters. He promised God that if he were given another daughter and won the war, he would give that daughter back to God. When they won the war, his wife became pregnant. They gave that child, Margerite, to the monastery on this small island.
It is now a tourist spot with only the ruins of the old church. We went for the swimming. The water park there had at least six pools, including a wave pool, a hot water pool, and some water slides.
Tonight we are going to enjoy authentic Hungarian goulash and search for some very popular black, Hungarian pottery that we have yet to find. (I’m so excited.)
We have to get to bed early tonight. Our bus leaves for the airport at 4:00am. Next time you hear from us, we will be in Greece.
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How was the Hungarian Gulash? Better than at BJU (yuck)! The pool sounds great. The hot tub sounds even better! Hope your travel to Greece was easy.
The goulash was good. I thought it would be thick like a stew, but really it's brothy like a soup with big chunks of meat and potato and little pasta dumplings. The broth has paprika in it as does about all hungarian dishes.
The plane ride to Greece was so bumpy and windy and I thought we were going to die. It didn't help I had just read a book about a plane crash...
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