2012 Danube River Cruise |
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine, and Romania to the east, Serbia, and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The country's capital, and largest city, is Budapest. Hungary is a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the Visegrad Group, and is a Schengen state. The official language is Hungarian, also known as Magyar, which is part of the Finno-Ugric group and is the most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in the European Union." (Wikipedia). Hungary was under Communist dictatorship from 1947 to 1989. |
Our first visit to a former Iron Curtain country, although Denis & Hilda had visited Russia a few years ago. Odd first impression; a vague resemblance to Havana, Cuba with its many unimaginative, decaying box-like buildings finally disappearing as we near downtown Budapest. |
« The Dohany Street or Great Synagogue. Many Jews lost their lives during the Nazi occupation of Budapest yet this synagogue, the 2nd largest in the world, survived intact. The occupying German forces used the towers for their communications network - rather ironic is it not.
« To mark the 1945 "liberation" of Hungary from the Nazi invasion in 1944, the Soviets erected this monument. The original wording said: "To the memory of the liberating Soviet heroes [erected by] the grateful Hungarian people [in] 1945". The citizens of Budapest were less than impressed. « Finally got to do one of my goals, to visit the statue of the Little Prince. The statue is really of a princess but legend has it that to guard her safety she dressed like a boy. Denis and I made the ½ mile trek from the Amacerto along the Danube walkways using my Oregon550 gps so we knew where we were going and perhaps more importantly, how to get back... « And here's a Prairie Canadian trying out falconry. There was a falconer near the church we visited on the Pest side of the Danube. |
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