A final day in Budapest

Thankfully today was quite a bit cooler with low cloud cover for much of the day.  In the morning we set off to the castle hill precinct on the "Buda" side of the Danube.  The main complex has a fractured history with many of the various palaces having been destroyed and rebuilt over much of its history.  The current complex boasts more of the grand buildings we have come to expect of this city and, as with everywhere else, more construction.  There is an ongoing archeological dig on part of the grounds and the plan seems to include eventually rebuilding some of the older palace destroyed previously.  Later we switched things up and took the transit to the other side of the city to one of the main parks.  On the way we passed by more impressive large building complexes and what seemed to be smaller detached "pocket palaces" which are now obviously small apartment blocks. We arrived at Hero's Square, an impressive monument to various figures important to the founding of Hungary.  We ventured into the park for a time to have a look around and to check out the thermal baths.  Considering our available time we decided against the complexities of navigating through a spa experience and wandered across to another odd castle complex housing a local tourist museum of sorts.  We headed back to the hotel for a break and then out for dinner later for Gyros from a local street vendor.  Planning tonight for our train trip to Zagreb and the car rental drive to Rovinj....