We were taken to the Ethnographic Museum in the heart of Pest, a very grand Renaissance building with sweeping marble staircases and frescoed ceilings. The main hall was set as if for an upmarket wedding but first we were led up red-carpeted marble staircases for cocktails and canapes. There were obligatory photos with the captain (why??) and then drinks for about an hour while we shouted over the noise of the vastly amplified string quartet which played somewhat incongruous selections such as Memory from Cats.
Finally everyone was sent down to the tables where each place was set with at least five different lots of cutlery and about seven different wine glasses.
There were eight different courses each accompanied by matching wines, most, to our taste fairly sweet and the food somewhat esoteric (though maybe just Hungarian gourmet).
We decided to front up for the 11pm bus home and apparently missed a really good show, but we really didn't want to have to wait until 1pm for the later buses.
Even though we left early it was a very interesting evening.
We arrived back at the ship to find a mini party in progress in the lounge where what fireworks there were were visible and just before midnight everyone wnt up onto the (freezing) sundeck to watch the fireworks.
So we had a pleasant but relatively quiet New Year's Eve. Apparently quite a few of the passengers had watched the Sydney fireworks on TV in the afternoon.
We decided to have a quiet day today and instead of going on the tour to some artists' village walked instead over the Liberty bridge to Buds and wandered around there for a while.
Once again there seems to be a problem uploading photos, so probably none tonight - but I don't really have much of interest anyway.
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