This is part of a memorial in Budapest related to the Cold War.
Chains of history
21 Wednesday Oct 2015
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Flying on two wheels
18 Sunday Oct 2015
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Hungarian on the fly!
17 Saturday Oct 2015
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.
It’s time to dance
13 Tuesday Oct 2015
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Some cool poster art in a railway underpass in Berlin.
Castle Hill at sunset
09 Friday Oct 2015
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Fisherman’s Bastion
08 Thursday Oct 2015
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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.
Black obelisk
07 Wednesday Oct 2015
Posted in Germany, Munich, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
On Karolinenplatz in Munich, a few minutes walk from the Odeon and the museum district, stands a black obelisk in the middle of a traffic circle. It’s made all the more dark in this dramatic late-afternoon backlight.
The monument commemorates Bavarian soldiers who fought in the era of Napoleon.
Cool kids never sleep
06 Tuesday Oct 2015
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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.
Eye over Budapest
05 Monday Oct 2015
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Berlin Hauptbahnhof
02 Friday Oct 2015
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Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Berlin’s main train station, is an elegant and efficient public space.
Its mainly glass train-shed allows lots of natural light into the building.
Organization of train services (regional S-Bahn trains top floor; regional, national and international services in the basement; local U-Bahn adjacent) makes transfers simple.
The large shopping and dining plaza on the two floors between train platforms encourages foot traffic.
Abundant public spaces and public art in, on and near the property add to the attractiveness of the building.
Every modern rail hub should aspire to be as welcoming.
Ricky Leong 