On the second day of our trip we went to the House of Terror, a museum in the building that formerly housed two terrorist dictatorships in the 1940s and 50s- first the Hungarian Nazis and then the Soviet-backed Communists. One person from every third family was seized, mistreated, or crippled under these regimes.
After our history lesson, we spent the rest of the day walking the streets and bridges of Budapest, watching boats float down the Danube, and enjoying an authentic Hungarian meal for dinner.
Mmmm...Hungarian goulash and potatoes. Like everything else we ate in Hungary, it was rather salty, over-seasoned, and brown. We went with the mushroom goulash because the only other option was gizzard goulash and that would have been a little too adventurous.Day 3
We started Saturday with a run around Margaret Island - an island in the middle of the Danube between Buda and Pest. After a quick lunch we went to a thermal bath to relax.
This was the main pool of the Gellert baths where men and women can bathe together. There were also thermal baths that were gender-specific. The thermal baths had several pools of water of various temperatures and a steam room. Pictures were not allowed inside of the thermal baths because clothing was optional.
This is us happy and relaxed after soaking in the multiple hot tubs for 4 hours.
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