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Re: Robinsons In Budapest

Rosie is back and drove me to do the shopping interleaving that with taking Bangle for her six-weekly grooming with Emma Speeden.

Saltwater Seafoods didn’t have any salmon when we called in having dropped off Bangle so we did the rest of the shopping and called back.- still no salmon. So we back-tracked to New World and got some there.

Commenting on their short river cruise to Budapest last week, Geoff said:

The boat itself, at 135M long, was slightly larger than our usual canal boat…

Robinsons River Cruiser – In Budapest

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… but the cabin was a bit nicer – and roomier.

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BTW, only four days earlier, the quay where we were moored had been submerged under the Danube floods. It had been touch and go whether the floods would subside in time for our trip. Fortunately, they did.

Budapest’s two most iconic landmarks:

The Chain Bridge

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Designed and constructed by English contractors in the 1840s, very much influenced by Brunel’s then recent Clifton Suspension Bridge.

Hungarian Parliament Building

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Built in the second half of the 19th Century, and – believe it or not – modelled on the Houses of Parliament in London.

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