My husband and I celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary on Monday, which prompted me to revisit some of our wedding pics. We got married in Yosemite National Park and honeymooned in Hungary, which was brilliantly cold and romantic in January. Eight years ago today, we arrived in Budapest; both of us had been there before, separately, and loved the city so much we decided to spend the first couple of weeks of our marriage there. Here’s the view of the Danube from our suite at the wonderful old Hotel Gellert in Budapest:

And here’s a street near our sweet bed and breakfast in Eger:

I wrote about Hungary and its storied wine, Bull’s Blood, for the anthology Adventures in Wine: True Stories of Vineyards and Vintages Around the World. Read the essay, “In the Valley of the Beautiful Women,” here on Google Books.