Joel's Journeys & Jaunts

Sopron Museum and the Sopron Fire Tower are located side by side in Sopron’s captivating medieval inner town. The Sopron Museum is in a building,...

Please do not surmise from the title of this entry, “Shopping for Sopron,” dear reader, that after a lifetime of despising shopping, I’ve suddenly developed...

Previously on Joel’s Journeys and Jaunts, I left you at lunch in Visegrád, the second of three towns on the Danube Bend full-day tour I...

For today, my last full day in Budapest, I booked a full-day tour to three towns on what’s known as the Danube Bend. In the...

The highlight of this afternoon in Budapest was the Hungarian State Opera. The opera house. Not the opera. That was a rather ridiculous thing to...

This morning, I went back to the Buda side of Budapest, this time to visit Pál-völgy Cave and Aquincum. By the way, in the English...

My plan for this afternoon was to first visit the Hospital in the Rock and Nuclear Bunker (that’s one thing, not two). It’s on the...

The Citadella (citadel) sits at the summit of Gellért Hill on the Buda side of Budapest. My hotel is on the Pest side. Bridges cross...

This afternoon in Budapest, I visited the Hungarian National Museum and the Hungarian Parliament building, with a walk through Liberty Square along the route between...

This morning in Budapest, I explored the Holocaust Memorial Centre after taking in Budapest’s central market. The market was about a half-hour walk from my...