Monday, July 7, 2008

Budapest

A concert in St Stephans Cathedral,  absolutely gorgeous sound



Going native on a hop on hop of tour


Statue of founder of Buda not Pest.  Budapest is actually two towns joined together.  Pest is the low area of town while Buda was on the hills and had the fortification
The Danube from up high
Pave with her own shop just waiting for her
Music whether you want it or not and with their tone I didn't want it  but they pinned me in and Pave' goaded them on for more.
Heros Square, see me as a hero pinned in on the right side of the monument beside those two wonderful musicians

Pave' just happened to note the size of the feet and fingers on this fellow and thought a good luck rub could bring happiness
 
Ceiling of the spa we went to, unfortunately we did not take the camera in and had to do with the set of photos sent to us by a friend.

St Stephan's Cathedral before the concert


Momento Park,  the place where old statues go to lie in peace?

Lenin & Marx, story goes that the two names were said so much together that a generation thought it was one person, Leninmarx


OK, the remainder of a statue of Stalin, the boots were the only thing left after the statue was hauled down and at that time he powers that be thought it might be a good idea to get the other communist statue out of Dodge and create a tourist spot with all of the reaming pieces, Above and Below.

Rumour has it that a bottle of this wine, drank by the royalty of Hungary, would produce a Boy child.  Must have been a dud bottle because we did try.

The restaurant street just down the steps and around a couple of corners from our apartment.  So many to choose from and not enough time.  We had the wine somewhere here.
 
Now this place was even closer than the restaurant street only one corner to go around.  You want to eat Ok meat or no meat.  wine or no wine. Music you get, like it or not.  We liked it great final meal in Budapest and not far to crawl back home to.

The spa again, fantastic art work if you looked beyond the grime nad dullness of the city.
Shush don't tell any one but the entrance to Momento Park is only a facade.
Ok so after taking the tram to the outskirts of Budapest we had to get onto another bus for about 30 minuted to take us to this historic spot maintaining the important art work of the Communist regime.  I forgot to mention that all important officials HAD to have their photos taken at the base of Stalin's boots, say what?
Anyways it cost 10 Euro a piece to get in so we just walked around the site outside and took photos for free.  Damn Capitalists.
 
I think this was a tribute to Janis Joplin, Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

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