Pest’s Andrassy Útca travels in a straight line from near to the Danube at Deak Ter and runs all the way to Hero’s Square (Hosok Ter) where you’ll find the Museum of Fine Arts, the Palace of Arts, a replica Transylvanian Castle behind and further still the Szechenyi baths. The metro runs all the way along Andrassy but the street is quite walkable with plenty of shops bars and restaurants….

Built in 1896 to commemorate 1000 years of Hungarian history. In the center of what must be one of the finest places to roller blade in all of Europe, though a bit flat for some, is a 36 meter column, flanked by 7 fearsome characters from Hungary’s conception, and topped by the Archangel Gabriel in the act of offering divine rule to the first King St Stephen (not shown)….

…Enormous, monumental and really quite impressive, it’s towers peak at close to 44 meters. 53 meters long, 26.5 meters wide, almost unsurprisingly it can seat 3000. Inside is a no less remarkable 5000 pipe organ which has in it’s history been played most famously by Franz List (List Ferenc) and Saint Siens….

Leaving, or maybe even launching, from right in front of the Chain Bridge (Lanchid) and the 0km stone where all roads in Hungary are measured from, the fenicular is a giant 3 tiered almost vertical railway that takes the pain out of the climb to the palace….

One block away from the Octogon on the famous Andrássy Utca you’ll find a pleasant promenade of restaurant and bars which in Summer spill out onto the walking street. Amongst these is Menza, a modern Hungarian restaurant (vendeglo) serving traditional fare with flare….

One of the best restaurants in Budapest for international cuisine and well located in the fifth district this is not the place to come for an authentic Hungarian dish. Primarily intended as a trap for tourists it does however trap them in a very pleasant way….

One of the most famous of coffee houses in, as the name suggests, a very central location just right to provide after-shopping refreshment being just east of the famous walking street Váci útca. Originally a meeting place for intellectuals, it has, in it’s checkered history, also been a place for paprika buyers, university students as the infamous Eotvos Klub, and even video gamers when it was briefly called ‘Wizzards’….