Tag: visit budapest
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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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A Visit to the Military History Museum, Budapest.
I love a good museum and I’m always on the hunt for one that will entertain, educate and inform me. The Military History museum in Budapest fulfilled all those things. On a cloudy Saturday morning, following a very wet Friday, I headed over to the Buda side to find the museum. The subway journey was…
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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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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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Memento Park, Budapest.
It was a bright day when I started out. Sure I’d seen a very red sky at sunrise but dismissed this completely. I’d read about Memento Park several times but never made it the last time I was in Budapest as it seemed a little far if I wasn’t driving. I had no idea how…
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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.…
The History Hunter 