Something tells me it's all happening...

Our morning in Budapest's Jewish quarter was wonderful, but very intense, and we decided to take the metro out to the City Park, at the far end of Andrassy, and find somewhere there to have lunch.

We weren't intending to go to Gundel - it has the reputation of the best restaurant in the city, and sounded very grand, and rather intimidating. But since we were so close, we'd just stroll along and look: and what we saw was that they offered a very tourist friendly lunch menu, and that we could eat outside on the terrace, and oh, well, why not?

This turned out to be a good decision: we enjoyed the sunshine, and the being waited on by charming and helpful men in the full rig of black suit and long white apron. We enjoyed the food and the wine, too. By the coffee, we were feeling extremely mellow.

It just so happens that to get to Gundel from the park, you walk past the zoo. The zoo was not on my list of things to see; it would not have occurred to me to visit the zoo; if I've ever been to a zoo before, I don't remember it. But as we had walked past, there were tantalising glimpses of blue domes and grey elephants (real ones), and we were, as I say, feeling very mellow, and the entrance to the zoo was very inviting - and our Budapest card took us in for free: for whatever reason, we went to the zoo.

( ...at the zoo. I do believe it... )

And that's the last post of the holiday: we now return you to our scheduled programme.