The sister ship moored tight beside us just floated away this morning - no churning water, no engine noise - it just spirited itself away like magic. We sat and watched it in awe through our floor to ceiling cabin window. The guided tour of Budapest started at 8.30., an unfamiliar temporal territory for me! The guide was a little bit irritating at first, with a squeaky voice and false sounding joviality (nerves?), but once she settled down, and pitched her voice an octave lower, she was charming, and kept up a constant stream of interesting little tit-bits of politics and history about the streets we were driving through. We ran out of steam about half way through, so we stopped for a cup of coffee and a sour-cherry strudel while everyone else went off on
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