Taken near Lake Balaton, Hungary
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DAILY PHOTO: Bronze Nude on Margit Island
Taken in 2011; Budapest, Hungary
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DAILY PHOTO: What Part of the Hiker is This?
Taken in the Summer of 2011 in Veresegyház, Hungary
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DAILY PHOTO: Budapest Alagút
Taken Summer of 2011
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DAILY PHOTO: Kálmán Széll Square in Budapest
This was called Moscow Square at the time this was taken (late 1990’s, I believe), but is now called Kálmán Széll Square.
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DAILY PHOTO: Szent János Plébániatemplom in Szentendre
Taken in summer 2011.
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DAILY PHOTO: Trabant 601-E with Optional Roof Keg
Taken in the Summer of 2011.
It’s a monumental challenge for a police officer to spot an open container unless the offender happens to be driving the wrong way down the sidewalk backwards while asleep, or one’s car is wrapped around a telephone pole upside-down. However, if you get the Keg-o-matic 2000 dispensing system installed on your car, are you really guilty of having an open container? The hose that attaches the device to one’s lips is the only part actually inside the car.
NOTE: This blog neither condones nor celebrates driving while intoxicated. I just thought this car, which I saw in rural Hungary near the border with Slovakia, was amusing.
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DAILY PHOTO: University of Debrecen
Taken in the summer of 2002
At which I attempted to learn the Hungarian language but was stymied by an excess of letters per word and an occasional disconcerting lack of vowels. (This is the main hall and wasn’t the building in which I was taught. Our classes (the language summer school) were taught downtown in a teacher’s college building.)
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DAILY PHOTO: A Rampaging Stakhanovite in the Szoborpark
Taken outside Budapest at the Statue Park in 2002
The Szoborpark, or Momento Park, is an open-air collection of Budapest’s old Communist-era statues. Needless to say, these statues were not popular, and many were probably rapidly destroyed when the Soviet strangle hold waned. However, a collection of these Lenins, Stalins, and their Hungarian equivalents (e.g. Béla Kun) remained. Furthermore, peppered into the collection were a few of images of the unknown “good soldier” and Stakhanovite workers, just to reinforce the notion that “all pigs are equal” (even if some are a little more so than others.) This one is the biggest of the lot. As I recall it stands about 2 stories high. The park is on the outskirts of town on the south side of the Buda (west) side of the Danube.
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DAILY PHOTO: Sopron, Hungary
Taken in 1996.
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