As we left our apartment on Saturday it was beginning to rain. We went to the train station to deal with an issue for our departure on Wednesday to Krakow when we discovered that trains can’t go there now because of track damage from the floods. 🤦🏼‍♀️ What is it with our train issues? Our only other option is to fly, so I got online and booked tickets. Unfortunately there are no direct flights to Krakow, so we have to change planes in Brussels and we have a long layover there. Our long train trip that we would have had was better than the much longer day we will have flying. Oh well, what else can we do?

After spending too much time at the train station we went to the Great Market Hall, where there are food vendors and other things you can buy. From there we went to St. Stephens Cathedral. They had a special event through the weekend so they weren’t charging admission. It is stunning inside, but they also had a lot of cameras, etc. for what I’m guessing is something happening Sunday. After that we went to the Parliament building, which is enormous. There was no way to fit it into a picture so I’ll take one from across the river today. We walked halfway across the Chain Bridge and saw the Shoes on the Danube. Explanations will be under the photos. We finished the day off with a nice Hungarian dinner of Chicken Paprikash. It was served with Hungarian dumplings, which are just like German spatzle. Delicious. I forgot to take a picture.