BUDAPEST AT NIGHT

   Needing to wait for our apartment to be cleaned,  we dropped off our luggage and hit the streets.  Our first stop was next door to a small Hamburger shop operated by 4 or 5 guys , we figured were Hungaruans.  We sat outside at a sidewalk table.  Our burgers and cokes were delicious!  I was impressed! 
   We headed in the direction of the River Danube, asking perfect strangers how to find it.  The initial hard part was not correctly pronouncing Danube!  We didn't know the Hungarians dropped the lette4 "b" .  It was   DANU! DUH!
   When we ask for distances and directions, we find ourselves often more confused than had we kept our mouths shut and figured it out ourselves.   A "5 minutes walk"..."only about 35 meters", and such answers are enough to get you started so you can ask the next person who you think speaks English.   They,  of course, have different directions.   Eventually,  that 5 minute walk only took 35 and that 35 meter distance was more like 200.  But there it was...the Danu.  You can't hide the Danu!
   We stopped at a Hop On Hop Off office and bought a 3 day pass which included a nighttime boat ride.  At the appointed time we crossed over and waited in line to board the sightseeing boat.  The night lights lit up the statues, buildings, bridges and everything!  Budapest is gorgeous at night!