DAILY PHOTO: Blue Danube

Posted on February 3, 2015 by B Gourley

Taken in December of 2014 in Szentendre.

DAILY PHOTO: Cathedral of St. Peter & St. Paul in Pécs

Posted on February 2, 2015 by B Gourley

Taken in December of 2014 in Pécs

This giant four-spired Cathedral is home of the Pécsi Roman Catholic Dioceses. Pécs has held a diocese headquarters since the early 11th century. The town that is now Pécs predates Roman times.

DAILY PHOTO: ’56 Memorial in the Városliget

Posted on January 31, 2015 by B Gourley

Taken in Budapest in December of 2014

This monument was dedicated in 2006, on the 50th Anniversary of the 1956 Revolution. In the autumn of 1956 there was an armed attempt to revolt against the Soviets and the puppet government they’d established in Hungary. After several days, Soviet forces withdrew, and–to wishful thinkers–it looked like the Soviet yoke might be thrown off. However, the Soviets came back with great duplicity and brutality and crushed the uprising.

From the side.

From the back.

DAILY PHOTO: Mossy Rubble

Posted on January 30, 2015 by B Gourley

Taken in October of 2012 at Angkor

DAILY PHOTO: Vörösmarty tér Lepény Vendor

Posted on January 29, 2015 by B Gourley

Taken in December of 2014 in Budapest

This is the finished product.

Lepény is a Hungarian street-food that some might call a folded over pizza and others might call a flat-bread sandwich. It’s bread (like pizza crust) topped with cheese and various vegetative and / or meaty toppings and cooked on a grill. (I just realized it could also be considered a fancy grilled cheese that starts from a ball of dough and not from pre-made bread.)

Anyway, there aren’t nearly as many lepény vendors as there are for say Kürtöskalács (the cylindrical sweet bread that is so very, very awesome), but the vendor at the Vörösmarty tér Christmas market always had a massive line. (We did discover that part of the long lines had to do with the temperamental nature of the wood-fired grills they used and the long time it took to cook one if they let the fire die down too much.) Still, people stayed in line, and that speaks somewhat to the tastiness of this treat.