(once again written a few days later in an attempt to catch up in roughly the order of appearance)
We arrived in Budapest just after midnight, definitely appreciating when we finally landed on a decent motorway. The hostel was quite spectacular, or at least had been in it's heyday (the building that is). We had breakfast and took a quick walk around and across the bridge (I hear originally there were twin cities, Buda and Pest, but are now combined as the capital). It was quite a beautiful city, noticably cleaner than Bucharest from what I saw despite it being one of the poorer nations in Europe (Romania sounds like it's really in dire straits now though, and is attempting to tax it's way out of the problem).
We drove on through here headed towards Vienna (Wien), Austria as the next stopover. Hungary was pretty and relatively flat with lots of trees and farmland and good highways...
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