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Tag Archives: Hungary
Košice
I had to get up at 5.30 in the morning to catch a train, but it was worth it – what a great day! The train on the left is the one I caught (actually the third one, after I … Continue reading
into the valley
This morning I Ieft Budapest and got a train to a small town in the north-east of Hungary called Eger (that’s pronounced egg-air). Its main claim to fame is that it fought off a large Turkish army that was trying … Continue reading
Hungarian history on a hot day
today I went to two old places outside of Budapest, connected with Hungary’s history. When the Hungarians came out of the east 1200 years ago (they had originally lived in Asia, between the Caspian and Aral seas), they settled first … Continue reading
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Tagged castle, church, Danube, Esztergom, Europe rail, Hungary, neoclassical, Visegrad
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terror and comfort
Today I went to the Terror House in Budapest. This is a museum set up in the house which was the headquarters, first, of Hungary’s Nazis, who ruled brutally for a few months in 1944-45; and then of the Hungarian … Continue reading
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Tagged Budapest, Hungary, Nazis, Ottoman, Soviet empire, terror, World War II
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Budapest
My arrival in Budapest wasn’t too salubrious: a drunken woman and a man with a weatherbeaten face and a moustache like out of a chronicle of some Balkan war shouting and throwing a table at each other, and an old … Continue reading
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Tagged Budapest, church, Danube, Hungary, Nazis, Ottoman, Roman Empire, Soviet empire, synagogue, terror, World War II
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aside: a German on holiday
I took this photo while eating lunch in a cafe in the main square at Győr. Note the German tourist at the far right of the photo, and the state of her underwear. This went on the whole time she … Continue reading
through the Iron Curtain
There is no doubt that Vienna is quite a mind-blowing town when it comes to art, even if (judging from the work in the Secession House) it looks like it might be living off its former glories (but perhaps that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Austria, Bratislava, concert, Danube, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Soviet empire, Vienna, World War II
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