2013-10-23: Day 28
Day off and I head up to the Buda Hills. Being a very nice day and a national holiday I wasn't alone.
There are three novel forms of transport that can be taken here. The Cog tram up, the “Children’s” railway along and the chair lift down.
Cog tram easily negotiated. Quite a violent incline but nowhere near as violent as the braking… understandable assuming it is as authentically on a cog system as it appeared but I did nearly go flying a couple of times.
At the top I wandered down to the Children’s railway so named as it’s staffed entirely by kids, other than the driver obviously. Thing is, everyone else did too and we'd just missed one. A glance at a map suggested the walk to the viewing point at Jánoshegy was very doable and so I do.
A very pleasant stroll it was too. Stopped there for lunch and the ever popular option of more Kolbas and then headed up the tower to look out over Budapest.
I had been thinking of taking the chair lift down but some rudimentary people watching, distance judging and maths suggested that the queue was nearly an hours wait.
Negative.
Stroll back and down and spend what is left of the afternoon/evening wandering back through Buda & then Pest.
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