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  Budapest, Hungary
Thursday, August 9, 2007

Becky and I jump on the train to Hungary, which is thankfully only steps from our hotel in Vienna on Maria Hilfer Strasse. We arrive in a busy, dilapidated yet beautiful boned train station in Budapest a few short hours later. We decide to get cash from the ATM and have to wait in a Communist style breadline to get our dough. We finally do and in the que try to figure out the exchange rate and how much moola to get - a trick because often ATM's will give big bills and that's not what you want when you're a tourist trying to keep track of every cent! It is hot, but we decide to walk through the streets with our luggage to get to our hotel. This take us longer than anticipated, but it gives us a real eye to the city and again, in a part I am positive most tourists never see. Crumbling walls, scaling paint and dirty streets all add up to the reality that this Hungarian capital was only recently run by socialist policies and it is only now starting to spruce up its fantastic inventory of historic buildings throughout the city.

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Castle at night	Hungary´s Parliament	Night view of River Danube	Some work to do
Budapest graffiti	Budapest public toilet	Little square	Market area, selling grilled meats
Selling their wares	Hungarian lace for sale	The Budapest Jester	The Budapest Castle
Along the river Danube	River walk	Beck on the bus	The oldest church in Budapest
Detail of Church spire	Budapest Castle	Budapest street scene	Huge building in Central Budapest
Jewish Synagogue	An interesting Soviet era building	Budapest advertising	Budapest parking
Parliament bldg closeup	Tourists at Parliament	We can look from the outside	Across the River Danube
Bullet holes from independence movement	A peek at St. Stephens Cathedral	Immense doors	Lovely buildings
The Opera House	Opera House detail	Statues on Opera House	Public Toilet   Comments!
Budapest street scene	More cool buildings	A Budapest Beauty	A Budapest story in the making
Heroes Square	Heroes at Heroes Square	Memorial to Hungary's Heroes	In all their Glory
We loved these Horse statues	A bold tourist	More horsies	Me and no statues
Me with the statues	Heroes Square in better light	Detail of Museum	Public Baths of Budapest
Run down building	Old glory	Great English signs	Another horse statue
Hungary's Parliament	Closeup of Parliament	Becky and the view	Me a bit too close and the view
Across the River Danube	The River Danube	Ms. Becky in Budapest	In the Old Town
View through the Arches	Another look at the Parliament	Fortified wall	Cathedral under construction
Wall with castle like tower	More of the Parliament	The lovely Danube River	View over Budapest
A lovely quiet corner	We rested here with this view	Can't get enough of the Parliament	Working men
View over the Danube	Good Hungarian beer!	Interior of St. Stephen's Cathedral	St. Stephen's exterior
Big bold and beautiful	Budapest's other train station	Train station roof	The Castle at night
Castle by night

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