We took a day trip to a nearby town, Esztergom, on Day Two, which dawned bright and beautiful. After missing the first train by about a minute, mainly because of a very kind woman who was totally wrong about where the train would be, we got on the next train and headed off on the 1.5 hour trip. The train ride took us through some lovely countryside (check out photos in web album).We arrived and hiked (30 min or so) into town and found great lunch at a nice bakery. Then we headed for our main destination, the cathedral at left. We had to go up a big hill to get there. Kudos to Chris for his perserverance with the stroller. The cathedral and castle ruins were beautiful.
Inside the cathedral, which has been the seat of Roman Catholocism in Hungary for a long time. It was very pretty and Eliot appreciated all the baby statues as is usual in churches for him.
Chris took the stairs up to the cathedral's cupola. Across the Danube is Slovakia. Note the tenuous chicken wire entrusted with holding back falling people....
In case you are wondering what a town in Slovakia is like, here is the town just over the river from Esztergom. It was a pleasant small town - all shops closed since it was Sunday. Slovakia was Eliot's 10th country! 
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