Transition out to East Europe – Budapest Hungary.
Our GPS stopped working, so we were back to the good old AAA maps that we picked up from a gas station after pumping $150 worth gas into the car @ 3 Euros a liter, that works out to more than $12 a gallon. Let’s not talk about that! While the whole world was cribbing about $135 a barrel, Archana and I were enjoying a 1500 mile European road trip!
One thing we quickly noticed about east Europe, people hate communism. That comes out in the way they ridicule communism. Check out a capitalistic tee-shirt shop on a sidewalk in Budapest.
McLenin’s, “KGB still watching You” and of course the other shirts that cry out loud, “WE ARE FREE, THE IRON CURTAIN HAS LIFTED”.
Archana found some Russian tanks to pose with. These tanks were commissioned out not more than just 20 years back.
Some wonderful pictures on a cruise in Budapest. This is on the river that runs right in the center of the city and separates the twin cities of Buda and Pest
We stayed at a hotel a few miles away from the city, tucked away in the woods. Gave a true Eastern European living feel. We travelled the bus into the city.
