Tag: travel
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In Bruges.
It’s a fairy tale town, isn’t it? How’s a fairy tale town not somebody’s f****** thing? How can all those canals and bridges and cobbled streets and those churches, all that beautiful f****** fairy tale stuff, how can that not be somebody’s f****** thing, eh? A line spoken by Ralph Fiennes in the 2008 movie…
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Budapest Line 1
During my stay in Budapest I didn’t really use the public transport for the first few days of my stay. The reason for this is that it seemed confusing and I’d read online that every trip something or another needed to be validated or you’d get a huge fine. In fact everything I’d read online…
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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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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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The Empty Bear Pit.
We were taking a walk through the Aldenhofpark in Maastricht trying to hunt down the statue of D’Artagnan we had read about online when we noticed a large, circular fence. As we got nearer we could see the strange sight of a black haired lady in a Red dress comforting a dying Giraffe. I’ll add…
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Antwerp Bunker Museum.
Hidden in a park on the outskirts of Antwerp lies this lovely, strange and surprising museum. The bunkers here were built in 1943 as part of the Atlantic wall defense shield around the coast of Europe by the German army during World War II. The troops which were stationed here in the bunkers and surrounding…
The History Hunter 