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Chain Bridge across the Danube The Danube is true to the waltz, it is blue! |
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Castle Hill at dusk. Unbelieveable sky at dusk. |
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Dedication to Stojan Vujicsics On the outside wall of 66 Vaci Utca. A dedication to a friend, a poet, a scholar and a wonderful man. |
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Parliament This gorgeous structure is being cleaned, should be even more spectacular when it is done. |
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Multipla by Fiat My sister thought this car was neat. I, on the other hand..... |
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Multipla front view It doesn't get any better from this angle. |
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Apartment house Looking up at the apartment building where we stayed. |
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Front entrance to the apartment This short street was right behind Vaci Utca, great location |
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Dead bolt Hungarian style This door had no less than 3 locks. |
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Full view of the deadbolt It took 3 full turns of the key to get this lock shut. |
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View from our apartment Our first apartment was overlooking the street but we moved to another. While the view wasn't nearly as interesting I thought this had a certain Chim-Chiminy effect. |
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Chain Bridge at night This was taken from Castle Hill, I really didn't think it would take. Great camera. Thanks Frank! |
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Funicular This incline took you to the top of Castle Hill. |
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Funicular View from inside the car. |
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Princeton High School Choir The choir sang in St. Matthias Church. The concert was absolutely magnificent. |
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Kathie & Andrea Kathie is director of the Fine Arts Firebird tours responsible for bringing the Princeton Choir to Budapest. Andrea is one of her Hungarian Tour Guides. I am fortunate to call them both very dear friends. |
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Margaret Island This island is situated in the middle of the Danube. A large park, hotel and spa can be found here. |
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Pest side Some of the large hotels and river boats that line this side of the Danube. |
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St. Stephen This beautiful statue is found on Castle Hill next to St. Matthias Church and the Fisherman's Bastion. |
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Synagogue This is the second largest Synagogue in Europe. |
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Interior of the Synagogue Beautiful interior. We were also fortunate to hear the cantor sing. |
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Stained glass interior of Synagogue Looking straight up. |
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The HEV, Interurban railway We took this train to Szentendre, a small town on the Danube northeast of Budapest. |
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The narrow alleyways of Szentendre This just adds to the charm of this city. |
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Shopping in Szentendre Beautiful day for shopping in Szentendre. |
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Tram One of the trams in and around Budapest. |
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Anna Anna taking flowers to her mother! |
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Alexandrov Family Andrea, Dani, Anna and Victor Wonderful, wonderful friends |
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Inner city parish church We went to Sunday Mass here on our last Sunday. The organ music was wonderful and the soprano who sang Ave Maria fabulous. |