Budapest Spring Music Festival March 2011 - Day Three - Szentendre

Don had suggested going to Sentendre by train, which he did & a load of the party did, too. Tube to Bettyani Ter & a suburban train on, which started there & finished in Sentendre, so no problems but the stations on the way all had impossible names. It is North of Budapest & at the point where the Danube is going South towards Budapest. The town is obviously very old & now, very touristy but none the worse for that. We walked round in several ways & along the Danube, stopping for a coffee on what seemed to be the main not-really-square square.

We found a rubbish shop with a lot of dolls & bought Bessie one in a lovely blue ethnic dress for Ft.2,600, which sounds a lot but the currency is tiny per unit: over 300 to the pound. They were very keen to sell us a lot more rubbish but no way. There were a lot of churches & at least, two Orthodox ones. We watched the service in one, which was quite impressive & it seemed a pity it is all superstitious tosh! We got a train back just before one & had poor so-called croque monsieur at a restaurant by Bettyani Ter, then crossed the road to the big view of the wedding cake Parliament Building.