Lenin moved

In the outer reaches of Budapest is a small park dedicated to the unwanted Soviet statues: The Statue Park

http://www.szoborpark.hu/en/en_index.php

And this sounded really cool. The fall of Communism is old news, but the statues stand proud.

Prepare to be underwhelmed.

We followed the brochures to a dilapidated train station on the outer reaches of woop-woop. We were now outside tourist territory, Toto. And the bus that is supposed to run every 15 minutes would be in ... 90 minutes time.

So we grabbed a taxi. And in our best Hungarian (lots of pointing and waving of brochure) we organised our way there. 3000 Forints later we had driven through most of the back streets of Buda. We really expected him to just pull over and kick us out.

Amazingly we made it, and pulled up out the front of a grand entrance that expects thousands of visitors. But it only gets a handful. The picture of Lenin, above, is from the entrance.

Inside we did a quick loop of the whole park in less than 20 minutes - including taking photos. An extra 10 minutes at the shop and we were wondering how to get the hell out of there.

Could we catch another bus back? Sure - but we would need to change buses twice. What the?

Into a waiting taxi, and the waving and negotiations began again. Except 3000 Forints this time got us chauffeur driven back into the city and dropped out the front of the Citadella. Clearly this guy hadn't done his dodginess homework.

http://www.citadella.hu/