On our last day in Budapest we managed to fit in a few of the City’s other cultural centres before flying home in the early afternoon. With a weekend already full of surprises I suppose I should have anticipated what was next. I love seeing how local people live in the cities that I visit […]
Budapest Day Three
This is where things get interesting as on day three we decided to stay on the eastern side of the city in Pest, to see what we could find. Although you won’t realise this if you confine yourself to the tourist hotspot of Buda, this city is a little bit threadbare. Although efforts have been […]
Budapest Day Two
Today was spent looking around the area where most of Budapest’s main sights are located – up on the hills of Buda, overlooking Pest to the east. We certainly wore out some shoe leather on day two, heading over the river on one of the city’s three main bridges at about 10am and not returning […]
Budapest Day One
Where to start with my trip to Budapest? At the beginning I guess… Day one of the trip, after leaving our Malev flight at the airport (not too bad – allocated seats and a sandwich and drinks on the flight) we headed over to our hotel on the Pest side of the river, the Mercure […]
Berliner Buddy Bears
OK, so now we get to my thoughts about Berlin, and to talk about something I’ve not mentioned before but which you can’t help noticing if you visit the city – the ‘Buddy Bears‘. Originally conceived as exhibits for an art installation in 2001 which formed one large group in the centre of the city, […]
Ghost Palace
On my final day in Berlin we set out for a day in Potsdam, and a visit to the park and palaces of Sanssouci, built for Frederick the Great in the mid 1700s. The day started off in a suitably eerie fashion, with fog and mist clinging close to the ground as we walked around […]
Berlin Day Two
On to my second full day in Berlin… This time we focussed on the city’s other side, appropriately enough starting the day at the wall, which divided West Berlin from the rest of this part of Germany from 1961 to 1989. Checkpoint Charlie, the entry point from the American Sector, has been recreated here, and […]
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