The Rain Breaks in Budapest
Taken by Neil and Kathy Carey on August 22, 2006.
While on a walking tour of Budapest, we were assaulted by a short but heavy rainshower, but after it was over, we were treated to a rainbow, above the famous chain bridge, Budapest's first permanent crossing of the Danube.

Arriving in Budapest after a long, sleepless night on a train from Romania was quite an experience. Budapest is much more like Western Europe than other parts of the former communist bloc that we've visited. It's a city of only 2 million people, but seems to have the foot traffic of a city 5 times its size. Arriving at rush hour, and being very tired, we had a tough time following the directions to our hostel. We ran into trouble because trams here don't actually indicate what direction they're going, so if you're not sure about the orientation of the city relative to where you are, you don't know which direction to get on. Also, we couldn't figure out where to buy ticket. This problem ended up being solved by taking a taxi.