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Exploring Pest, No Time for Buda
... besides the view...was the music! I got to enjoy jazz standard versions of Bon Jovi's "It's My Life" and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". That one was particularly interesting!
A quick stop at the hotel gym to check on the rooftop city views and then it was time for work. Conveniently, the office building was located right across the street from the Hilton West End. I met our alum at his office and we spent some time discussing his time at school and ...
What happens when you plan not so much
... out that there were two Geller's hill on the map I was using. In retrospect I'm thinking one of them was a mislabel or maybe the hill was just really big. My map reading can't possibly have failed unless the heat was affecting my brain. I took the metro to the fabled location of the hill and there was simply no hill. I did find the House of Terror (WW2 atrocities) but wasn't in the mood to get depressed. So I took some photos of random cool buildings ...
Free urination... win!
... Hungarian window washers who don't get paid, get angry.
- Canned bierwurst, processed cheese and chilli sauce sandwiches are better than they sound.
We made it to Budapest and found a campsite a couple o' miles out of town. It's a bit strange as ourselves and two others are the only people on a huge lot. We're not sure why... maybe we'll know by morning.
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Budapest I: Museums to Ballet to Bars
... by the Arrowcross party (a political party that ruled in 1945 that essentially had the same ideals as the Nazis). Jews were lined up along the river, forced to take off their shoes, and then shot into the river. The memorial is a tribute to all of them.
The memorial was really our first indication of the country's horrible depressing history, which I'll get into more later. There was something distinctly eerie about the memorial that still ...
From Buda to Pest
... something like "Aaron ben David," Aaron, son of David. He wanted his Jewish subjects to have "permanent" last names like everyone else. So his agents rounded up the Jews and assigned them names according to their most obvious characteristic: Klein, Gross, Weiss, Schwartz, (small, big, white, black), etc. At this point, that's almost all I know about the tiny Klein clan!
We packed up for our move to the apartment we'd rented on the other ...
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