So, it ends. We have reached our destination, slept like logs and woken up without needing to ride those bloomin’ bikes again ! We breakfasted well (8.5/10 on the Andrew breakfast scale), and booked ourselves onto a city tour. After another shower, we joined about 8 other people on a minibus tour of the city. Yolander, our guide, was good – a little mechanical in her delivery (she must have done this 100’s of times) but perfectly fine.

We saw the sights – Hero’s square, The castle, The rather marvelous Parliment building. Lucia visited a marzipan museum, which inluded such delights as Snow White, Harry Potter and Lady Di (I made that last one up) made out of marzipan and declared it wonderful, Belinda and I had an espresso instead.

We lunched in The Hard Rock Cafe, which was surprisingly good, and Luce bought a T-shirt. Then we wandered around the centre of Budapest which is very lovely and then circled further out where it is less lovely and more like any other European city with dark, slightly menacing looking shops intersperssed with Gucci and other bright, luxurious option.

We arrived back at the hotel drained, and had an afternoon nap (well I did, not sure what the other two did…).

We skipped out for dinner around 9:00pm, wandering down into the area around St Stephens church, where we feasted on pizza and salad and desserts. Then a taxi back to hotel and straight to bed: Tomorrow we fly home….