Hungary for Christmas

It was a very merry Christmas in Budapest! My parents were my presents. We checked into our hotel and headed to the Christmas market. We sampled the mulled wine.

On Wednesday, we took a bus tour of the city. Our guide was stellar. We loved St. Stephan's church and the Fisherman's Bastion. We also took a tour of the Duhány Street Synagogue, the second biggest synagogue in the world. It holds 3,500 people. There was a mass grave with victims of the Holocaust and a few memorials nearby.

Today, we took on Banská Bystrica. We went to mass at the Virgin Mary Church. It was built around 1255. Then, we went to the village of Hronsek. There is a beautiful wooden church. It was built in 1725 without any metal. No nails! It's has amphitheater-style seating for 1,100 people. The inside was even more incredible than the outside. We're planning to have more fun tomorrow.