Budapest Be-Bop


All photos, copyright, Hugh Siegel, 2004




Pest, from Buda




Csapolt sör és disznóhús


                                      

                Watch the closing doors                                                 The MTA could learn a thing or two . . .




Caf ngelika, Buda




A mensch in the museum




egy, kettő, három . . .




Rise, Hungarian Avantgarde!




Rise, Spanish Avantgarde!




Old socialist statues are now capitalist tools at Statue Park.


Vlad, cut down to size.




Marx and Engels are rather square




Cafe Gerbeaud, Pest



Great Synagogue of Budapest




The sanctuary




Jewish cemetary


                           

                At the Holocaust memorial                                            Victims of the Nazis




The Book of Esther


                   

        Concentration camp uniform and carved staff           World War II-era, anti-semitic propaganda




Drums made from Torah parchment, and a dress made from prayer shawls




The Cave Church on Castle Hill, Buda




Bartok in the Parktok




Old and New in Pest



At the Lukács Pools



Bike shop Hugo




On the Duna




Approaching Szetendre




Shrek meets marzipan




Citadel of Viszigrad




Snails mating on the "stations of the cross" trail to the Viszigrad Citadel




The Falcon and the Sonia




Hugh Tell! (photo by Sonia)




All-you-can-eat wax buffet in the Citadel




The Falconer makes her way back down to Viszigrad




Mobile Oom-pah band in Viszigrad




Beach on the Danube near Viszigrad




Bubbles in Esztergom




Sweets at the street fair, Esztergom




By the canal, Esztergom




Coffee and Ginger Ale at Cafe Trafó




Barnstorming the Basilica of Esztergom





Hungarian/Slovak Border -- "Papers, please!"





A Trabant!




Highwater mark of Great Flood of 1838 in Duna Museum




Seamstress, Esztergom



                                           

                                  Source of all paprika                                         Gyümölcs and Zöldség





At the Esztergom street market, resistance is futile




Market-side discussion




Lovers on the bridge



Train to the south




Goldman Karóly Utca, Pécs



Mosque Church of Pécs



Arab-Christian medly in the Mosque Church




What they're reading in Pécs



Posing in National Theatre Square




Thumbs up in Szent István tér, Pécs




Liszt lists in Dóm ter, Pécs




McGoulash




Dance class, Pécs




The master from Macedonia





A Chorus Line




It's all in the wrist



It's all in the ankle





Just like Times Square on Saturday Night


                           

                           Dueling tambouras                                                      Dueling gaidas




Solo Tarambouka




Not the Hungarian Waltz



After dark they really get going




Strange doings in Pécs



Synagogue of P飳




Hungarian/Hebrew prayerbook




Pasha Hassan Jakovali Mosque, Pécs




Inside the mosque




Ottoman Ceramic



 
A Lada!




Malkocs Bej Mosque, Siklós;BR>



Wall-to-wall carpets




Fruit soup, tomato salad, and a glass of the local brew in Villány (and thee)




Viszontlátásra, Magyar



K?nom sz鰥n!

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