Day 9 and 10 up to Budapest and over to Vienna, Austria

We landed in Budapest, Hungary by 12.30pm today. Wow a very large busy city. Sitting on a tour bus currently seeing all the highlights. This is another diverse city, full of castles and churches. Very historic with lots of famous composers and scholars being educated here. They are very proud of their heritage. Sorry I did not write much about Budapest, we did like it much better than Vienna, it has a notion of coming back and exploring a little more.</p>
<p>On our way to vienna we went through Slovakia with, many open farm lands. They are growing lots of corn, probably for the ethanol everyone loves so much. We have been seeing deer signs for almost the entire trip, but we have not seen a single animal yet. We arrived in Vienna (Wien) about noon and stopped and enjoyed lunch. Vienna looked pretty modern when we first entered, shopping everywhere. We wandered around and found lots more shopping. We regrouped and headed into the central plaza. Now we found the old Vienna. We stumbled on the Hufburg Palace and the Lipizzan riding school, which looked like a very huge courtyard of cobblestone with huge impressive buildings surrounding it. The girls got some good photos of it and the two arched entry and exit points. Impressive until you got to the church, oh but the old church was just a bit further and it was very old and large. Built in 1136 it was very well kept up. Massive pillars and arches inside. Again plenty of photos, of Vienna.</p>
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