Tag: budapest statues
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The Statue of Imre Nagy, Budapest.
I got lost one day in Budapest, took what I thought was a short cut and ended up by the river. I walked past the Columbo statue and headed toward the water. Just by Margit hid bridge I noticed another, small bridge with a man standing on it. He seemed quite jolly and I made…
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Buda Tower.
They say that you should do something every day that scares you. With that in mind I climbed many, many stairs to find myself at the top of a huge tower that I walked past after leaving the Military Museum in Budapest. I have a huge fear of heights by the way. Little did I…
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Statues In Budapest.
I’m back home in the UK and going through all the photos on my phone. There’s a lot. While I’m working on a couple of other things about Budapest I’ll drop of a few photos of various statues that I encountered in the city. This statue called Mother Earth by Nandor Wagnor is by Buda…
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Fiume Road Cemetery, Budapest.
Regular readers willl know that whenever I visit a new city the two things I seek out are Old Cinemas or Cemeteries. Budapest, oddly, has no old, abandoned, repurposed or derelict cinemas. All of the cinemas in the city are either newish and operated by the Cinema City comany or still standing from the 80’s.…
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Columbo Statue, Budapest.
We were in Budapest recently and I read an article online which told me “10 things you need to do in Budapest” and one of those things was to visit the statue of Columbo. Columbo? I was sure that it must have been a mistake. Columbus maybe? No, there it was Columbo and his dog.…
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