In depth recounting of my global wandering
Well, friends, this is it. My last full day in Budapest or, I should say, in Pest because while I’ll cross part of the Danube, it will only be as far as Margaret Island and not all the way to …
On the Beautiful Blue Danube. I’ll start this section with these questions: Does my header for this section have you hearing this? And if you weren’t hearing it before, is it an ear worm now? I am not, as Barbara …
Terror follows pizza (and I don’t mean lactose intolerance). I didn’t think our time at Shoes Along the Danube or in the October 1956 memorial under Kossuth Square had yet sufficiently atoned for yesterday’s phallic frivolity at the Market so …
Gyula Andrássy. The posts I wrote about Hungarian history while lengthy in combination were far from comprehensive. Among the influential Hungarians I haven’t discussed is Gyula Andrássy – honored by the statue in the photo at the end of the …
In case you’re wondering, today’s story takes place on Thursday, 25 August and I left the U S on 7 August so, in the context of the trip, we’ll spend today and tomorrow in Budapest and then I’ll be home. …