I couldn’t get enough of the statues here, so I took a bunch of photos.
Museum of Fine Arts.An excellent guard tower.Some of the statue ornamentation of the Vajdahunyad Castle.Jáki kápolna Church.I really loved how covered in plant matter this tower was.View of the castle from across the pond.The Széchenyi Thermal Bath building.The inside of our massive apartment. Pay no attention to the reflection in the mirror of all our stuff lying around.Buda, as seen while crossing over the Elisabeth Bridge.I’m a bit of a fan of snapping shots of street cars. Especially when they’re as colourful as this!Climbing up the Gellért Hill, looking our towards Pest.This guy was at the top. Slaying some kind of beast.The Danube slices between Buda and Pest.
While in Budapest, I started playing around with taking shots for the purpose of converting them to black and white.More excellent architecture.The dome of the Parliament building at night. This was also taken with the intent to make it black and white, but it looked pretty good in colour as well.Another black and white shot.Evening in Liberty Square.
Intricate building decoration.Approaching the mighty St. Stephen’s Basilica.
Dohány Street Synagogue, in a Moorish style.The Central Market Hall. Filled with vendors of meats, and vegetables, and paprika products! All delicious looking. We bought some paprika to bring home.Walking away from the Basilica, towards the Danube.Our tour guide informed us that this statue was the first of a new wave of statues on Budapest. After having cycled through several governmental ideologies in quick succession, and dealt with the rising and pulling down of the statues and monuments associated with each one, the Hungarians decided best to just put up random things that have nothing to do with anything, to save on having to eventually pull them down.This statue seems to be pulling the finger.The hills of Buda.The funicular, which climbs up to the old Buda Castle (actually a palace).The Hungarian Parliament Building.
Matthias Church.
More Buda, off in the distance.
A stately gentleman in his stately garden.I really liked some of the old, somewhat busted, buildings around town.Many of which had some pretty intricate designs.This is another of my favourite busted buildings.
