Good Afternoon Base Campers!
@bill1024, I feel your snow shoveling pain; even pushing the snow to the side puts a strain on the muscles of your lower back. One exercise I have found to relieve lower back pain very well is this one which works at once, is gentle and uncomplicated, and which you can perform as often as you want. Doing it before you leave bed in the morning is a good idea whenever you have lower back problems.
But, of course, if you can wipe the job off on the younger generations it’s easier for you

@apartsman, you keep coming with surprises. Entered the workplace at age 7! And seem to have liked it oceans ever since. Oh, I think what you have done for Base Camp during this trek is so unusual. Your Rosie is well deserved
I’m pleased you like this detour from your daily Edwardians crunching, and hope you will feel like joining future Base Camp treks.

@everybody: You have a nifty chance of trying out Base Camping right now. You only need to crunch away from your home team for a day or two – well, one WU qualifies for a badge and a mention in the Base Camp Hall of Fame. We just updated it for this trek. Your name could sit here as well.
Why not give it try? Join Team Hungary now and let us know in this thread.
It isn’t dangerous. You’ll not need to speak Hungarian, because they seem not to want to talk with us.

I wanted to continue our sightseeing in Budapest today, but something went awry. First thing in the morning I walked to the pharmacy to pick up four new medications to manage my new condition as – am I really a heart patient now? It turned out that the hospital handled a new nationwide IT system so poorly that only the prescription for one of the four products had arrived at the central prescription server. I got furious, sad, and off kelter for the first time during this ordeal. I needed those tablets for the evening and decided that a phone conversation wouldn’t work and went by car to the hospital to tell them what I thought about their handling of this and suggest they corrected their mess and tried some kind of quality control. They spent a good deal of time getting it right while I dined with my earlier room mates dear to me. They apologized. I called the pharmacy to check that they could see the products in their database. They could. I walked to pick them up a little while ago.
’We have a problem,’ they said. ’No,’ I said, ’I need no more problems today.’ They solved it by dispensing the double quantity of tablets at half the dose.
The one thing I really fear is loosing my mood again.
The feeling of wanting to live is so precious to those who have lost it and regained it.

Good Morning Base Campers!
mike047 and TLD both went home to sujo1 and SeriousCrunchers. Thank you for helping out We hope to see you on some future Base Camp treks.
The rest of the crew lingers on.
This is the points graph which does show a small peak in the general spike.

I find it remarkable that a Base Camp crew can match an entire country that doesn’t talk and make it double.
Sort of having recreated the Austrian-Hungarian Empire … in a silent version

Time to look at what that Empire left for us to enjoy:
We’ll start out by crossing the Danube just outside our hotel on the recently renovated green Liberty Bridge.
We’ll walk North on the left bank, and we invite the sun to come out. As is the avenue on the right bank on which we walked a few days ago, this one is named for a person who worked in the Jewish community, too: Jane Haining , a Scottish missionary. She died in Auschwitz in 1944.
With the sun in our back we’ll enjoy the view of the Royal Castle complex dominating the hill on the right bank of the Danube.

Soon we’ll arrive at the Chain Bridge which we cross and find the Funicular Railway – a cog wheel thing – which takes us to the top of the castle as the view of the city widens below us.

The majestic buildings of the Royal Palace complex not only house the Royal Castle but also the National Gallery and the Budapest History Museum, enough to keep us busy for the entire day if we so chose. But we move on and pass Sandór Palota the residence of the Hungarian President, János Áder, who looks as if he would talk if we met him.

We move northwards into Óbuda, the old city, and keeping to the right we reach the Fisherman’s Bastion . It probably served some defensive or aggressive purpose centuries ago. Now it is whipped cream for our eyes. Behind us we have the Matthias Church with one more example of the patterned colorful ceramic tile roof.
We walk slowly through the touristy part - all in good taste - and refresh ourselves with whatever we like and reach the domestic area.

Each house is a treasure in itself. If any of you have ever seen the movie ”The Pianist” by Roman Polanski, you would think we walked in his scenography at the outset of that film. We find enough museums to occupy us for days – each according to his interests – the huge Army History Museum for instance, or how about the Museum for the escape artist Houdini?

Before we return to a hot bath and a hot meal we’ll visit the Garden of Philosophy and ponder the wonders of life.

No, in fact the team captain and one other team member are the only ones that have ever emailed me. There are a few more team members that I've friended on Facebook. You little mermaid are welcome to email me and friend me on Facebook if you want.
From an earlier comment you made, I take it the trek to Hungary ends today?
The only people here happy about Obamacre are the ones that live off the taxpayers. Everyone else got screwed royally. Example, my insurance was $136/mo, as Obamacare began to unfold it went to $196 because all policies had to cover everything reguardless (which meant maternity had to be covered by mine - last time I checked having babies wasn't possible for men). Then when it went full tilt my insurance went to $1100/mo, cheapest policy available was $600 and covered absolutely nothing. Yes nothing, that's exactly what Blue Cross said, not even hospital stay in case of an accident. The only purpose of the policy was to keep me from being fined by the IRS for not having insurance. The fine? About $1500/yr. Guess you already figured out I just pay the fine. As for the assistance programs to help pay for insurance my total household income is too high to apply and yet if I pay for insurance I can't pay my mortgage or utilities. The whole thing was to benefit the freeloaders. If they would make Congress use the same rules and laws that apply to the rest of us you can bet things would get fixed overnight.
Y'all have a great day.

Good Morning Base Campers!
This is the last day of our weird Hungary trek. I want to thank each and everyone for coming. For Urden and acpartsman this was their very first trek, and I hope Urden like acpartsman would like to come along on future Base Camp treks. Your names are listed in the Base Camp Hall of Fame alongside the badge you earned for the Hungary trek. Should I have missed someone, please let me know, and I’ll correct it ASAP.

There are so many things we haven’t seen, so today will be a whirlwind tour catching up on some of it. We’ll forget about time, distances, and anything resemling reality and imagine the day is five miles long. We’ll start out by going by tram to the cogwheel railway that will take us up 400 m/1,200 feet into the backhills.

We cross to the ’Children’s Railway’ which in fact is run by children to sell tickets, send off the trains and everything under supervision of adults. This was a Soviet idea that has been allowed to live. It should prepare interested children for getting a carreer at the railways.

After a while we get off the train and walk uphill to the Elizabeth Lookout Tower with a splended view across the mountains.

Downhill, we’ll take the chairlift, and somehow we’ll find one of the boats to take us down the Danube first admiring the incredibly beautiful and beautifully located Parliament building

And because we asked permission in advance, we jump ship to visit the Parliament Library
We board the boat again and continue all the way downstream to the architecturally very peculiar new National Theatre.
We’ll jump on a tram back to midtown and enter the Great Market Hall Here we’ll snack on a lángos – the Hungarian answer to pizza – with a cold Dreher draft beer.
We’ll go roof watching: The Geological Museum

The Museum of Applied Art

and the former Postal Savings Bank
We cannot get close to that one, because the US Embassy is almost its neighbor and the streets are closed off. Seriously.
We’ll stroll into the nearby Liberty Park and say hello to Ronald Reagan walk to the nearby Art Deco Four Seasons Gresham Palace Hotel where we’ll spend the rest of our money on a serving on politically incorrect fois gras with the best Tokay the maître d’hotel can bring us.
Finally we’ll stroll up the street to the St. Stephen’s Basilica for a concert in the magnificent room.

It has been a pleasure trekking with you, and Base Camp looks forward to seeing you on one or many more of our future treks

Google translate, tsk, tsk, tsk
But it's understandable, Urden.
We were happy to have you on the crew, I'm pleased you liked this adventure and look forward to having you join a Base Camp crew again when your mood is for it.
*****
Google traduire, tsk, tsk, tsk
Mais c'est compréhensible, Urden.
Nous étions heureux de vous compter parmi les membres de l'équipe, je suis heureux que vous ayez aimé cette aventure et je suis impatient de vous revoir parmi les membres de l'équipe du Base Camp lorsque vous en aurez envie.