Hotel Beke Radisson
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
... with water and half filled with diesel. They created an input to the generator that was located in a flower garden. Every time they went to water the garden, they'd also fill up the generator. A very smart idea until Winter comes along and there are no flowers to water! Apart from all the other risks, the head doctor was Jewish. He had planned to escape with his family but ended up staying to work in the hospital... He couldn't leave all those people behind to suffer. It was a ...
Boat Tour and Marketplace
... green peppers and boiled potatoes and thought it was very good but really messy. The place was packed and it was hard to find a spot to sit and eat, but eventually we found spots near an English couple who were visiting Budapest for a week.
Back at the hotel, we purchased our tickets for the Szechenyi Bath for tomorrow morning.
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You gotta love this city, love this city
... century, the Hungarian people had gone back to it's own monarchy within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, however, it still remained part of the Empire with an emperor overseeing the whole thing. It was due to this tie, that despite the Hungarian parliament trying its hardest to reframe from war, was dragged into World War I on the side of the Germans. In October 1918, the relations between Austria and Hungary were formally dissolved. The Trianon Treaty of 1920 saw ...
Buda + Pest = Budapest
One doesn't always know what to expect when thinking about Hungary. Maybe goulash comes to mind? Well it certainly is alot more than that (although I did eat that too!). Unlike Vienna, we got to spend several days in Budapest. Again, we started the a day with a city tour. We saw Buda and Pest (actually two different towns). Budapest is very spread out and includes some hills. Oh, it was so nice to see some hills for a change. ...
Not Worthy of a Man's Attention...
... making it sound like everything was my fault and I kept saying sorry.
We were both laughing as we entered the hostel. We knew that each of us was a work in progress, and that we had both helped each other learn something about ourselves that day. I had a new awareness of myself and how skewed my thinking had been for quite some time. I was also very conscious of my need to accept blame for everything. I was utterly exhausted by the time my head hit the pillow....
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