When we made reservations for our two Road Scholar tours, we made reservations four a couple of nights after the first tour ended in the same hotel that the second would be leaving from. We had a couple of days before our return to Amsterdam to see more of the city.
Our first stop was right next door, Mattias Church, a newly-built church in Gothic style, with what seemed to us to be many Byzantine touches, perhaps left over from Ottoman times.
While we were in the church, a group of men gathered as a choir and began to sing. They were eventually joined by a female soloist. They sang for about 25 minutes, enthralling the visitors, including us. We have no idea who they were or why they chose to sing at that moment. Just another day on the road.
Our objective for the day was the train station. We had asked the concierge at the hotel to write out what we wanted, train tickets for a week later to visit friends in the countryside. (It has been a long time since we had to ask for help like that!) Happily, our train station -- one of five in the city -- was walking distance, so we trekked over to get our tickets.
One the way back we took the long way back to our hotel, and spied another sign of royal habitation, due to our excellent road scholar training.
It was a little warm for a wedding...
There was an old armory at the end of the road, with old armaments.
Looking down the barrel....
A peace monument with a bronze sculpture of a priest's vestments.
We saw more examples of distinctive Hungarian tiled roofs.
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