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Budapest, Széchenyi Fürdő (Spa)
I always complain about Budapest’s missed opportunities and one of them is definitely exploring better its historical spas. This recently refurbished spa is located in one of the largest and most amazing parks of the city (not that that there are too many of them… - yep, another complaint, in case you would be counting).
This photo, as well as most photos, looks much better in b&w but I decided publish it in color because of the nice flowers. Click the post title to see more images of the building. I think they worth it.
Shoes by the Danube - Jewish Memorial
A shocking memorial of Jews shot dead into the Danube river during the end of WW2. The shoes are now located at the Pest bank of the river overlooking the Buda Castle Dirtrict.
Budapest Restaurant Guide
I haven’t been posintg here for a while but I’ve been busy launching an online restaurant guide to help tourists and ex-pats in Budapest to avoid tourist traps in gastronomy (yer, there are so many).
I consider myself a conscious consumer and I believe that visitors coming to Budapest have a level of sophistication so that they deserve better than a typical goulash, töltött paprika or paprikás csirke served in most restaurants. Unfortunately for tourists, most good restaurants in Budapest have international cuisine and only very few of them offer quality Hungarian food, especially those not located near easily accessible tourist spots.
There are some however which deserve Your attention and I indicate these by tagging them and creating separate category such as “top tourist pick” or “recommended for tourists” (please note however that most of these too are international and not typical Hungarian restaurants). It’s all available now here:
I’ve just started filling this blog with my personal experiences but very soon there will be lot more hopefully.
If you’ve visited any of these restaurants during your stay in Budapest, your comment would be much appreciated!
Hotel Intercontinental
This building is located by the Danube river with an excellent view of the castle the opposite side of the river. It’s currently being rebuilt but it’s as ugly as it used to be.
July Theme Day
City Daily Photo Themes days are organised by citidailyphoto.com and this is the 2nd time I’ve participated. This month the theme is “No …” signs. The free translation of the plate is:
“Construction Are. Strangers do not cross.”
I think this building i gorgeous, so here’s another building from that neighborhood.
Please check here my first tentative.
For more city daily photo theme day posts by other participants, please click below. I also have one more photo left (another aspirant for this theme day). So pleas check it out along with other participants’ work.
Budapest Vigadó
This is the recently renewed Pesti Vigadó building viewed from the Danube. The state-owned building is under protection and it’s located at one of the most prestigious places, the Vigadó tér.
Erick Van Egeraat work
I had some pictures published of this building cluster of the Erick Van Egeraat studio 3 months ago when I started up this blog. Being a fan and not being able to take good picture lately, I’m publishing an old one of one of my favorite architecture themes of Budapest.
Unability
I’m still unable to post decent city photos so all I can do is either pick older pictures or keep posting wine labels. Today, once again, I decided to do the latter.
This wine is not that good btw (scored 3), so check my wine blog to find out about good Hungarian wines.
More wine
Lately I haven’t been able to take pictures in the city. All I can do is posting photos taken at home about wine bottles. Why not? These can be pretty and as you can see even cute, they can be found in huge quantities in my flat and they photograph well. So here they are, reviews of the wines can be found, as always, here.
Erzsébet tér nightmare
This photo was taken in the heart of Budapest: 300 meters from Chain Bridge, from Szt. István Basilica, 100 m from Andrássy street. It’s a socialist realist nightmare. Kind of cool though.
Bországgyűlés at Vajdahunyad in Városliget
Bországgyűlés is a yearly wine and food outdoor exhibition and fair following the Pannon Bormustra, a rather important national wine contest. “Full” coverage of the event is published on my Hungary Wine Reviews Blog, so let’s focus to the venue here. This is the smaller version of the Vajdahunyad castle of Romania, Transylvania to be more precise. It’s located in the Városliget park, where you can also find the Széchenyi Spa and the city Zoo by the Heros’ Square.
Budapest, VIIIth district
Another typical building from the late XIXth, early XXth century Budapest. These houses can still be found in big number in the ravaged VIIIth district. The area is more lucky than its neighbour IXth disctrict which has been undergoing block rehabilitation programmes in the past decade. In practice this meant destruction of stylish old buildings to give space for ugly, indistinctive cheap and bad quality new properties in this working class district of Budapest. Before too long we can probably expect projects like Corvin project taking place in this neighbourhood as well. It’s really a shame.
Budapest, Hungária Fürdő (Spa)
This is the facade of the old Hungária Fürdő in Dohány utca (in the VIIth district), an old spa which has been abandoned for decades now. Its day are probably counted, as this area is one of the most hit by the destructive expansion of new property developments by corrupt national and international property developers. This district has already seen some scandalous transactions and “developments”, but unfortunately the trend does not seem to break yet. It’s very said.
I don’t know the name of this architecture style, so anyone please help me out.
Budapest by the way has many thermal water springs, and Budapest has still many nice old spas which I hope can cover all soon on the pages of this blog.
Cheating theme day
I took this photo for the citydailyphoto.com theme day (monthly theme: corner shop).
Since I’m currently in Barcelona (yep, Primavera sound), I decided to post a photo from Barcelona which complies with this month’s theme (Hungarian corner shops are not that interesting anyway, trust me). So here it is.
Greetings from this fantastic city and sorry for cheating on theme day. I’ll be back soon.
See more market photos and other city daily photos below.
Underground station
… and mirror image of the Parliament. This is metro line no. 2, one of 3 altogether in Budapest. The no.1 was actually the first continental underground in Europe, if I’m not mistaken.
The former Budapest Commodities Exchange, later national TV HQs
Yep, Farger is right behind this.
Budapest, Soviet memorial
The building on the left is a bank. The other one is residential. All located on Szabadság tér, by the American embassy. And by Farger coffe shop, which features a very cute dog, good bagels, cakes and coffee.
Another socialist realist building from the historical city center
I know it’s weird, but somehow I think it’s kind of cool.
