The concert was great.
The dinner too was delicious. Roast goose breast with red cabbage. I have been cooking goose and duck ever since. They are amazingly plentiful and cheap in the great market just opposite where we live.
Budapest has been suffering from a heat wave this last week. Temperatures were in the high 30s which you would think we hardy Aussies would take with ease but the humidity is not what we can cope with. So we had to escape to one of the baths.
We went to the Szechenyi Baths which like all others, have several outdoor and even more pools of varying degrees of warmth inside. Szecheny Baths has probably the nicest exterior of all the baths. They are all horribly expensive to visit, about the equivalent of AUD$20 per person. The waters are thermal and considered therapeutic. Hungarian citizens can get a doctor's prescription to go there while the tourists subsidise them by the hefty charges.
It is compulsory to wear a bathing cap in the large swimming pool but not in any of the others. I cannot fathom the logic of that. If you don't have one you have to hire a cap.
Above is the monument of cast iron shoes along a specific part on the bank of the Danube, in memory of the thousand of Jews shot into the Danube the by the Arrow Cross, the very willing Hungarian Nazis.
The view across the Danube at night.
The Gellert Hotel lit up at night.
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