Caking and eating our way through Budapest

With Femke around life is good. Our plan for this weekend is to visit as many good cafés, restaurants and thermal baths as possible for my stories. So we started with cakes at Gerbeaud, a fancy and famous traditional café in the city center. A short visit to the central market hall made us hungry so we sneaked out and into the wine restaurant Borbíróság where we enjoyed excellent lunch. Femke had duck (not for the last time this weekend) while I was more modest with a traditional and tasty cabbage and sausage soup.

Now it was past noon, so high time for another café! This time the venerable Café Central where we had Flódni cake with nuts and poppy seeds (me) and walnut&apple cake (Miss F) to the sound of a violinist.

This was all hard work so we just had to soak up a bit in a bath. Enter Rudas thermal bath, built by the Ottomans in the 16th Century. What a beautiful and atmospheric place!

Swimming makes you hungry but luckily we found a table at the excellent wine restaurant (another one...) Klassz. And then waited a night at the Hungarian State Opera watching ballet. I must admit that dance is not really my thing, I prefer Opera in these circumstances, but the building is beautiful and Femke loved it. And it does give you a bit of a James Bond-feeling to walk down the red carpet of the  magnificent staircase with a glass of champagne and a beautiful woman :-)