It was Venice for all the reasons you came up with. Well done everyone. Too easy by far, I am working on something more challenging for next time.
I thought that the cruise ship might have confused some of you…
Posted in Austria, Budapest, Cathedrals, Europe, History, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Postcards, Spain, Travel, United Kingdom, World Heritage
Tagged Budapest, Hallstatt, Hull, Mykonos, Newark, reflections, Venice
Based on the success of my previous ‘odd one out’ posts here is another.
Which one is it?
Louis Kossuth was the man who led the 1848 revolution that attempted to overthrow the Hapsburgs and there is a large monument to his memory at one end of the square.
Louis Kossuth is a hero in Hungarian history books but the pigeons don’t show him a lot of respect.
More statues in Budapest…
Posted in Budapest, Europe, History, Hungary, Literature, Postcards, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Budapest, Budapest Parliament, Crown of St Stephen, Culture, Hungarian Goulash, Life, River Danube, Shoes by the Danube
Posted in Budapest, Cathedrals, Europe, Food, History, Literature, Postcards, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Budapest, Budapest Market, Culture, Hungarian Goulash, Life, Stalin's Boots, UNESCO
Even though travel restrictions are easing I am not yet minded to risk it so I still have no new stories to post so I continue to go through my picture archives and see where I was on this day at any time in the last few travelling years.
On 5th November 2014 I was in Budapest at the famous Gellért Spa Hotel…
In 1934 Budapest was awarded the supreme title of ‘Spa City’ and three years later, the first International Balneological Congress was organised and the headquarters of the International Balneological Association was established at the Gellért Thermal Baths in Budapest.
Posted in Beaches, Budapest, Europe, History, Knights of St John, Literature, Natural Environment, Postcards, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Blue Lagoon Iceland, Budapest, Culture, Gellert Hill, Hotel Gellert, Life, Thermal Spa
Budapest did not become a single city until the official amalgamation on 17th November 1873 of right-bank Buda and Óbuda together with Pest on the left bank. This was seen as a supremely symbolic event that marked a union between Western and Eastern Europe and the city became the second capital of Austria-Hungary.
Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favourite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post each week and then sharing your link in the comments’ on Norm’s site, anytime between Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American Eastern Time).
Posted in Budapest, Europe, History, Hungary, Literature, Postcards, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Budapest, City Bus Tour Budapest, Culture, Life, Margaret Island Budapest, River Danube, UNESCO Budapest
The five of us debated entrance to the Parliament building. Even with half price entrance fees (2,000 Florints) for citizens of the European Union there wasn’t a great deal of enthusiasm to visit the interior and after a show of hands it was only Sue and I that paid up and waited in line to go inside while the others made their various ways back to the Hotel Gellért.
The forty minute tour took us up wide open staircases, through elaborately decorated corridors, magnificently appointed state rooms and into the debating chambers but the highlight was the central dome (ninety-six metres high, remember) and in pride of place the fabulous crown of Saint Stephen.
Posted in Budapest, Cathedrals, Europe, Food, Hungary, Literature, Postcards, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Budapest, Budapest Parliament, Crown of St Stephen, Culture, Hungarian Goulash, Life, River Danube, Shoes by the Danube
Anyone care to take a guess in which countries these pictures were taken?
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Budapest, Europe, Food, History, Hungary, Literature, Malta, Spain, Travel
Tagged Barcelona, Budapest, Catalonia, Doors and Windows, Durham Cathedral, Sardinia, Schiltach Black Forest, Venice, Weekly Photo Challenge
After a while we arrived at the factory, which was being converted into a museum but as the project was way behind schedule there was only a temporary exhibition to look around. When Podgórze became the site of the Jewish Ghetto many Germans set up businesses in the area in an attempt to profit from the Nazi invasion of Poland. Oskar Schindler was such a man, but in the end he came to save the lives of over eleven hundred Jews that worked in his factory, often at great risk to his own life and at personal expense.
Posted in Budapest, Europe, History, Literature, Poland, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Kazimierz, Krakow, Life, Oskar Schindler, Podgórze, River Vistula, Schindler's Factory, Travel
Posted in Beaches, Budapest, Europe, Greece, Greek islands, History, Hungary, island hopping, Poland, Spain, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Anonymous pedestrians, Ballyvaughan, Budapest, Cleethorpes, Corfu, Hierapolis, Kalami. Corfu, Pamukkale, Photography, Sigüenza, the Mallard Steam Train, Wroclaw, York National Railway Museum
