Balkans and Budapest 2016

Our guided tour had ended and, before taking her leave, Barbara arranged to meet us at the hotel to take us to the included dinner. We five wandered a short distance from the square and found a spot to have …

Andrássy Street  – a closer look We saw this monument from a distance It’s hard to notice without enlarging the photo (which you can do by clicking on it) but in front of both the column and the colonnade that …

“Good morning,” said our local guide Barbara when she met us in the lobby to lead our tour of Budapest. And for me, my difficulty in compiling this tale of my travels reaches it zenith. As I noted in a …

Walking along Wesselényi Street, thinking we were still headed toward the restaurant, we passed a series of markers honoring famous Jewish Hungarians including such familiar names as József Pulitzer and Erik Weisz who may be better known to you by …

If this were a normal recounting, I’d be writing about my time in Budapest in rather rapturous detail because the city in the summer is a visitor’s dream. But, if you were with me at the beginning of this tale, …