First thing this morning, we drove to the statue park outside the city where the statues from the Soviet era have been laid to rest. The people no longer wanted them in their city.
women are great
to give you some idea of the size of this, his back toe is about shoulder height to me
lenin, of courseAfter this, we dropped off the car at our camp site and headed for the Pest side of the city today. The bus from our camp site stops on the Buda side, so we walked down the hill to the bridge beside the island. This gave us a good view of the Parliament building on the Pest side and the castle on the Buda side. We walked from the Parliament building through a square with the only remaining soviet statue in the city. It commemorates the Russians liberating the city from the Germans. This is my old neighborhood from when I spent two weeks here with Kristine and Cheryl in 2004. I took Paul to St. Stephens and showed him the flat we called home right next to the church. Then we walked to the synagogue, across the Chain Bridge, up to the castle and back to the bus stop where we started.
the soviet monument still in budapest has to have a fence around it to protect it from damage by the people. a policeman walking by explained this to us when paul asked about it
st. stephen's church
the synagogue21 july
It took us three hours to get to Budapest, and the sat nav delivered us to our campsite. It is called ‘Niche’ for a reason. It’s on a steep hillside and we are slotted into the slope like a niche in a wall.
our camp site We set up camp quickly, then took the bus to the castle. Both it and our campsite are on the Buda side of the Danube. We walked the length of the castle and enjoyed beautiful views of the river and Pest side before returning ‘home’ for dinner at the local restaurant.
a view of parliment from the fisherman's bastion on the castle hill
the chain bridge from the castle hill
a gate to the hapsburg part of the castle hill
detail from a building on a corner within the castle walls
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