Tue 2 Sep- Le Meridien and Budapest

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Tue 2 Sep- after the Le Meridien included breakfast buffet, we worked on Internet, email, read USA Today and generally relaxed.
For lunch, we went to a local Hungarian restaurant 'Strudel House' and had a mixed salad (HUF 1590), draft Bitburg beer (HUF 1620), and beefsteak Hungarian style (HUF 3990); total HUF 7200 (E32.7, about $48). The beef was like filet mignon, really delicious and tender, and the salad was very nice with an assortment of lettuce and vegetables. The beer was different from the Pilsner we've become used to, more acid and a stronger flavor, but still very good. Budapest is not a cheap city, especially in the tourist-oriented old town areas.
In the evening we walked around the old town, over to the Danube to admire once again the lights of the palace and castle across the river. We returned to the hotel and went to the bar, where we enjoyed draft Dreher beer and a salad while listening to the piano, string bass and drum trio playing jazz arrangements of popular tunes.