When we wake up, Mercur has already left for bunkering diesel. Thomas has been talking to them and it will take them a few hours before they are back and will head for Vienna. We’ll use that time to drop the Andersson family off and set off to a pontoon in the city on the Pest side. We find one close to the hotel they will stay at. Two Hungarians come looking at Ellide Embla. One just asking if we have any Swedish beer aboard and the other if she is built in Scotland, he has seen the CQR anchor that is made there. While Olga and Daria go searching for ice-cream I decide we shall stay one day in Budapest and we sail for the marina that Hans found for us.
Passing through Budapest on the river, although it is still early hours, is like a traffic jam. There are cruising ships, small ferries, jet ferries crisscrossing and one has to be quite alert not to run in to any of them, or let any of them run into you from the aft.
We found the marina were Hans said it should be. They showed us a place to moor and after some formalities and a shower we took a taxi to the city. In Budapest the first thing we bought was ice-cream. It turned out 4 small ice-creams cost as much as taxi from the marina to centre. Taxi is cheap, ice-cream is expensive in Budapest. The city is very beautiful but it is quite a bit of a tourist trap. There are tourists everywhere and sightseeing tours etc…
The marina is excellent with a service department for Volvo Penta. I borrow some tools to try to fix the hard-to-turn steering wheel but it turns out it need more than that. I also find a little oil leakage on the connection to the pressure gage. Something easily fixed when at a marina with service department.
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