We left the Camino and plunged into the non-Camino world in a good way by discovering that Ed had booked us on Iberia Business Class to Budapest. The photo above shows Ed indicating that we are in Boarding Group 1 from Bilbao to Madrid and Madrid to Budapest. Nice meals served on the plane reminded us of the way air travel used to be!

We enjoyed some wonderful meals and sights in Budapest, thanks to Ed’s selection of a great hotel on Andrassy avenue, the city heart. We spend some of our time trying to repair Anne’s cell phone which suffered a fall in the Camino (at least it wasn’t either of us people).

A very moving experience was our visit to the Great Synagogue and Jewish Museum which taught us about more than 800,000 people were murdered in just 2-1/2 months, the last months before the Nazi surrender. We consider us to be fortunate that we were able to visit the day before the synagogue closed to the public for Yom Kippur.

We left Budapest for Ravenna on September 30 and just concluded a magical visit of four days. Due to the continued weakness of Anne’s cell phone battery, Anne’s photography and blog posting is constrained. The next post will, we hope,  describe Ravenna. Today we are in transit to Dubrovnik which we hope to reach by October 7.