I left off last time in Prague... so here goes. We left Prague and
headed to Budapest. It was a great drive through the countryside of
the Czech republic. They have a lot of large farms and during the
communist days they produced so much food that Czech never had to
worry about starving like many other countries. In fact Czech exports
were very important to the soviet union and once they had produced
enough food they were allowed to trade with other countries for other
materials making them much better off then other communist states.
They call it communism lite. After the fall the farmers decided to
keep the large farms together as co-ops and are still very successful.
We stopped for lunch in Bratslava, Slovakia. It was kind if crappy but
the building were quite beautiful and being improved. We had a
terrible time with a waitor that had a terrible time communicating.
They had a very cool bridge that crossed the Danube.
We got to Budapest, Hungary and were immediately impressed by the
city. Even though it was nearly 80% destroyed during WW2 it was
rebuilt exactly the same as it had been in the 14th century. We went
on a night tour after we got settled in the hotel. It was called the
illumination tour because most of the buildings are illuminated until
midnight. The city was once two cities split by the Danube; Buda the
hilly side and Pest the flat side.
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