One of my favorite things about Europe is the ease of travel between countries! For our off days this week some of us took the night train to Budapest Hungary for the day.

Five years ago when I was traveling around Europe, with my rail pass, I was in Vienna and decided to hop the train to Budapest. It was a Sunday afternoon and the city was rather dead so I got some lunch at the train station then got the next train to Salzburg Austria. Here I was five years later walking out of that same train station. I couldn’t believe the difference five years had made. So for your viewing pleasure a day in Budapest:

The top one is from five years ago, the bottom one is from Monday

The New York Cafe, one of the fanciest cafes around

Heroes square

The Chain Bridge

View from the Citadell

A Jewish synogogue