Budapest Sightseeing

[susanstinson]

I'm finding it a little overwhelming to write a post about my trip to Budapest. The content of the conference was dense and intellectually and emotionally intense for me, and what I saw of the city itself woke up unexpected parts of me. I took only a few pictures.

Here's the view from my window at Kalvin Haz. I walked down this street to Raday, which has many bars, cafes, restaurants, and the Karoli Gaspar University, where the Jonathan Edwards in Europe conference was held.



Budapest 005, originally uploaded by susanliz.

It's hard to see in this picture, but there were faces on the building across from the window, looking back at me. Everywhere I looked, there were things going on with buildings that suprised or startled me or took my breathe away.



Budapest 006, originally uploaded by susanliz.


Missing my trike, I walked across the Danube on the Szabadság bridge.


Budapest 001, originally uploaded by susanliz.

Budapest 003, originally uploaded by susanliz.

This is a view of Pest from Buda, the Parliment building from the Fisherman's Bastion.



Budapest 009, originally uploaded by susanliz.

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

i'd love to see that city in person someday.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

You could. I found it very welcoming.

[mermeydele.livejournal.com]

lovely pictures! thanks for sharing them and your other travel experiences, susan.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Glad you like them.

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

Susan was the place you were staying in Buda or in Pest?


my heart aches to be there looking at your pictures.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

In Pest, in Kalvin square. Very close to the river and to the Great Market hall, where I got sour cherry and cheese strudel and lots of paprika to bring home.

[crazycrone.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the photos. It looks so romantic and inspiring. *Sigh*

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Well, so much beauty, and also so much insistent humanity (and, so, for me, not romantic), and lots of traces of long, painful history. And a big jazz band in a little courtyard festival playing the theme song to The Flintstones, ending with shouting what I'm pretty sure was a Hungarian variation on "Wilma!" at the end, to the delight of the crowd.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I loved Budapest when I visited. so beautiful. Glad you are having a good time.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

I had such a good time. When were you there?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

1993. I'll see if I can find the pic of me with an awful goatee drinking beer on the island between Buda and Pest.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Margaret Island, named for St. Margaret. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Margaret_of_Hungary) Cool. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Island)