squirmelia | Castle Hill (Reply)

Halászbástya

It was Thursday and I had arrived in Budapest the night before. Marios led me onto the metro and then to Castle Hill, and disappeared after that to a conference, so I let my guidebooks direct me from there.

I walked first to Mátyás-templom (Matthias Church) and looked up at the scaffolding and colourful tiles on the church roof, before wandering onwards to a green statue of Szent István on a horse, and then to the pretty Halászbástya (Fisherman's Bastion), where I stood amongst the conical towers and gazed out at the Danube river, the parliament building, and oh, Buda, Pest and the glowing sky.