Budapest beautiful Buda

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'Twas in Olde Budapeste that FourBees discovered a deep and abiding passion for architecture and photography, and, of course, the gyönyörû-szép-irodalom-gazdag magyar nyelv. For, conveniently, as in all great Central European cities (I’m thinking here of my personal photogenic-faves: Bratislava, Budapest, Krakow, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Bucharest, Brno, Sofia, Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Kijev, Lvov, Zagreb, Skopje, Tirana, Sarajevo and, whoopsadaisy, Praha) it is physically impossible to take a bad pic (although one glance at Flickr might dispute this). Compare with the truly dreary pics I took on a day trip to bourgeoise, cake-stuffed Lille recently [censored fr.yr.own.good]. Here is a little photo summary of the beauties to be found in Buda.
More tomorrow. Pest maybe.

Ganz foundry museum statue of András Mechwart, developer of the Ganz factory. Alajos Stróbl created a meisterwerk and a worker called Pospischil (sounds suspiciously SlovakoCzech) created the figure from the cast. Everthing got smashed in World War I and this remains. That Mechwart certainly has a chin on him. Dig those funky sandals!

Várkert bazár the sad, dilapidated state of the once proud castle market and a pavilion for fun, fun, fun built by Miklós Ybl in 1882. I know of a Brit-businessman (he's not my mate) who wanted to buy it and turn it into (horror of horrors) a shopping complex. Thankfully the city said no, although they might make an effort with the duster, or a panscrub, themselves.

Városmajor park in memory of the gunner battalion 1914-18. The German-helmet style headware is a bit disturbing, not?

Lukács baths the most beautiful thermal baths in Budapest. Frequent by ageing, gossipy literary folk rather than the soggy old queens who lurk in the steam of the Rudas and Rác.