Day 10 October 17th Budapest to Prague



passing the Danube?

With a long journey ahead of us

autumn colours by the Danube?

 we were up early, showered, breakfasted and in the hotel lobby ready to depart by 0815.  Our guide was there to conduct us in the coach to Budapest Nyugati station (we had arrived at Budapest Keleti) and our train which left at 

village with church

0940.  We left on time but our seats were not as comfortable as the previous trains and there were problems with the air conditioning which intermittently failed.  Anyway we were reasonably comfortable and I was able to complete the previous two days blogs as we sped along.  It was a reasonable day and the countryside was mainly farmland with occasional glimpses of what we thought was the Danube.  One of the stations we stopped at was Bratislava which we had visited on our Rhine/Danube cruise holiday some years ago.  We had a picnic lunch because we had been warned that catering might not be good on this train.  The wifi was good and I was able to post the blogs. 



Prague station

We arrived in Prague a few 

impressive Prague station hall

minutes late at approx. 1620.  We disembarked and were met by our guide for this city who tried to urge us through the station to the exit and waiting coach.  The station was quite attractive with a marble pillared reception 

"lighthouse" at Prague station

hall and what looked like a lighthouse on the outside.  We were soon at our hotel and ensconced in what looked like a very comfortable room.  We dined together in the hotel that evening, getting to know more of our travel companions.