Today was a bit of a nostalgic day as Nina set off before 9:00 this morning to visit Vajdahunyad Castle and Heroes Square. These were places we visited and remarked on when we previously visited Budapest. Along the way she found a revamped City Park and the Ethnography Museum.

We arrived at Budapests Kerepesi station a bit past at 9:00 and were delighted to discover that our hotel was literally a 5 minute walk across the road. The plan was to have breakfast at the hotel, leave our luggage there and start the days tour activities. However by the time breakfast was over Nina's head was spinning and we were unable to join the group but rather pleaded with the hotel staff for a room so she could sleep until her "turn" had passed.

Today is a bit of a milestone as this evening we catch the last overnight train of this marathon journey. However, that is not until 18:00 this evening and we have a late checkout with our hotel room until 17:00. So today we have the time to do a bit of exploring.

Nina took a short walk around the town this morning for a few more photos and then we were off to the station to catch a train to Bucharest, At the station we learned that the train was 60+minutes late and that set the scene for the day as the weather also deteriorated into heavy rain and by the time we got to Bucharest everything was saturated. The last couple of photos below are of the Danube River from the train. The Danube forms the border between Bulgaria abnd Romania.

Today, Sept 27th, we had almost an entire day in Istanbul before catching another night train to the Bulgarian town of Veliko Tarnovo. So Nina and I continued our nostalgia tour of this fabulous but chaotic city by walking to Taksim Square (and return). This was just an exercise of remebering the last time we were here and collecting some more interesting images along the way.