The Paris of the East

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Budapest is really growing on me. At first I was pretty intimidated but now I am able to really appreciate it, Budapest is a beautiful city with a great atmosphere that's been through a lot. And by a lot I mean world war bombings and 50 years of communism. Today we're going to drive down to Serbia so over and out comrades.

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Photos

The Danube and Parliment
Looking at Pest from Buda

Budapest's immaculate metro stations
they're over a 100 years old and Jelena said they all look like little museums and she's right, they are spotless and the trains are old but in a good way.

Jelena on the boat cruise
with the gorgeous Parliment

Commie buses
sooo cool.

The Crown Jewels in the Parliment
Some are over a thousand years old

Comments

[Peter]

Heroes' Square
Hello! You missed the caption of the 4th picture, as it appears to be taken at Firherman's bastion, in front of the statue of Saint Stephen, the first Hungarian king. The 'real' Heroes's square looks like this: http://www.omniplan.hu/2003-BudapestXmas/7365-HeroesSquare.jpg . And yes, my Polish friend also told me that Hungarian is the craziest sounding language he had ever heard of... (but finally he could manage to learn a few phrases to impress the girls :-) Peter (Budapest)