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It pays to look up …

28 Wednesday Oct 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in Budapest, Hungary, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban

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Gobbling real-estate

… because once in a while, you see something like this, in the windows of an apartment block in Budapest.

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Playing with puppy

23 Friday Oct 2015

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Playtime

There’s a lot of serious art in modern Europe commemorating very serious events in its history. Once in a while, however, you come across something like this statue along the Danube River in Budapest: It’s just plain whimsical, celebrating the joys of everyday living.
Happy Friday.

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Hungarian on the fly!

17 Saturday Oct 2015

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Got the message

My Hungarian is only as good as what I could glean from the back pages of a travel guidebook … and I can’t speak to how good my accent is … but with a handy-dandy sign like this, who needs words? 🙂
Spotted along Andrassy Ut in Budapest back in September.

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Budapest Market Hall

14 Wednesday Oct 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in Budapest, food, Hungary, photography, photowalk, Travel, urban

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Market Hall

Here’s a view of the Market Hall in Budapest, inside and out.

Fresh offerings

Happily preserved

Oh, honey!

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Castle Hill at sunset

09 Friday Oct 2015

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Sunset over Buda

It was very fortunate the setting sun and clouds were doing what they did behind the royal palace in Buda as I was getting ready to snap this photo.

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Fisherman’s Bastion

08 Thursday Oct 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, art, Budapest, history, Hungary, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Fisherman's Bastion

Fisherman’s Bastion is a wonderful gem on the Buda side of the Danube River in Budapest.
The structure itself is grand and ornate, while the view of Pest from the top of the attraction is equally spectacular.

Buda and Pest

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Cool kids never sleep

06 Tuesday Oct 2015

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Cool kids never sleep

After I snapped this photo in Budapest, I had a nagging feeling I might have seen something similar before. Alas, a quick survey of my collection after I got home didn’t turn anything up … but I get the feeling that other photo is sitting on a hard drive somewhere, waiting for me to find it.

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Eye over Budapest

05 Monday Oct 2015

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Eye over Budapest

Apparently, everyone loves a ferris wheel. This one’s in Budapest, adjacent to the cultural plaza that was once a Communist-era bus terminal. As you can imagine, it’s the tallest thing around.

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Sun over Buda

01 Thursday Oct 2015

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Sun over Buda Hill

If you’re in Budapest on a late summer afternoon, standing near the riverside a few steps from the Hungarian Parliament building in Pest, this is what your camera might see across the Danube to the castles of Buda. Your eyes will likely do a better job 🙂

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Where time stands still

29 Tuesday Sep 2015

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Time standing still

The sands of time are immoveable … but only in this exact spot in Budapest. This stylized hourglass, a piece of public art to celebrate Hungary’s admission to the European Union, doesn’t actually work anymore.

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