For my second day in Budapest, I visited the Fine Art Museum. My original plan was to visit the thermal baths but after I stood in a very long line and read the reviews, I changed my mind. It didn’t seem too appealing after all.
Luckily, the Fine Art Museum was in the same park I was already in, so I stood in their long line and finally got inside. I had a light lunch in the café, enjoyed their looted Egyptian artifacts, and finally got up to the beautiful Renior exhibition, on loan from the Museé d’Orsay in Paris. They had a film featuring footage of Renior as an elderly man and one of his boxes of paints and brushes. Since I’m learning fine art right now, that was really neat to see.
On my third day, despite the sometimes heavy rain, I ventured out to walk around the Parliament Building, strolled along the Danube, and saw the Shoes on the Danube sculpture, depicting the Jews who were shot into the Danube.
I continued on to the Central Market and walked around the whole massive place. I got some snacks at Aldi for the 7-hour Flixbus ride to Krakow tomorrow.
I found myself on a touristy street of restaurants and souvenir shops. I stopped for lunch of Hungarian goulash with spetzal. I sat next to a family who spoke exactly like Jaimie Tartt in the series Ted Lasso.
I’m a pro now at Budapest’s transportation system. Thank goodness for Google Maps. The sights here are a bit spread out and I never found a town square like in Prague.
