My Opera5 days in Budapest
Saturday, August 30, 2008 11:55:30 AM
All started on Friday 22nd 
First time I was travelling by train to Budapest. Both ways were quite "enjoyable". On the way from Prague to Budapest - the ticket checker could not control my return ticket cause the mashine was broken and on the way back my vagon was cancelled so I had to find some free place. Everytime when I travel there has to be some problem cause otherwise it would not be such fun
During the five days we (my wonderful girlfriend and me) visited lot of nice places. I would like to mention some of those. Unfortunatelly I didn't have any camera so the photo-documentation is only from one of these places. (Other pics stolen from internet).
On Saturday evening we went again to spas - this time over favourite Rudas. Great place to take a rest and smooth Your skin.
On the other days we visited for example Szechenyi hegy. Very nice place full of old trees, fresh air and such. We came there by cog-wheel train and then travelled on the ridge by Children's railway.
We also went to the Margaret Island...
another great place to take a rest. The cars aren't allowed to enter so there's just bus going. You can find some artificial lakes there, nice big fountain and soem ruins... "The most significant ancient monument on the island is the ruin of a thirteenth-century convent of Dominican nuns near the open-air theatre. The convent was founded by King Béla IV, who built up the country again after the Mongol invasion (1241-42) and is therefore sometimes called the second founder of the State. His daughter Margaret came to live in the convent in 1251 at the age of eleven. She was later canonised and the island now bears her name. A marble plaque in the nave of the church ruins indicates the spot where she was buried. A few steps to the north of the convent ruins we see the chapel of the medieval Premonstratensian monastery. In its tower hangs the oldest bell in Hungary. It was made in the fifteenth century and discovered intact not many years ago among the roots of a tree torn out by a storm. Around the chapel, along the promenade, we find statues of the most eminent a representatives of Hungarian literature and arts."
On Tuesday we went to near city called Szentendre. I can only recommend to visit this city to everyone who goes to Budapest... it is not that complicated to get in there and the experience is worth it.
We visited few museums there f.e.: Margit Kovacs museum of ceramics and some Jewish monuments as well as nice orthodox churches which are all around the city. There are orthodox churches because of Serbian families living there since centuries - nowadays there are about 100 Serbian families.
City is also full of nice small merchant houses. There's also a possibility to walk around the river Danube and buy a ticket for the ferry which carries You to the Island.
And somewhere here in my albums are pics from Szentendre
Oh, and I would almost forgot - we visited Mediaeval Jewish Prayer House on the Buda castle area. Great place too! The kabbalistic paintings on the ceiling are nice and there are also some wich are not obviously revealed yet...
First time I was travelling by train to Budapest. Both ways were quite "enjoyable". On the way from Prague to Budapest - the ticket checker could not control my return ticket cause the mashine was broken and on the way back my vagon was cancelled so I had to find some free place. Everytime when I travel there has to be some problem cause otherwise it would not be such fun
During the five days we (my wonderful girlfriend and me) visited lot of nice places. I would like to mention some of those. Unfortunatelly I didn't have any camera so the photo-documentation is only from one of these places. (Other pics stolen from internet).
On Saturday evening we went again to spas - this time over favourite Rudas. Great place to take a rest and smooth Your skin.
On the other days we visited for example Szechenyi hegy. Very nice place full of old trees, fresh air and such. We came there by cog-wheel train and then travelled on the ridge by Children's railway.
We also went to the Margaret Island...
another great place to take a rest. The cars aren't allowed to enter so there's just bus going. You can find some artificial lakes there, nice big fountain and soem ruins... "The most significant ancient monument on the island is the ruin of a thirteenth-century convent of Dominican nuns near the open-air theatre. The convent was founded by King Béla IV, who built up the country again after the Mongol invasion (1241-42) and is therefore sometimes called the second founder of the State. His daughter Margaret came to live in the convent in 1251 at the age of eleven. She was later canonised and the island now bears her name. A marble plaque in the nave of the church ruins indicates the spot where she was buried. A few steps to the north of the convent ruins we see the chapel of the medieval Premonstratensian monastery. In its tower hangs the oldest bell in Hungary. It was made in the fifteenth century and discovered intact not many years ago among the roots of a tree torn out by a storm. Around the chapel, along the promenade, we find statues of the most eminent a representatives of Hungarian literature and arts."On Tuesday we went to near city called Szentendre. I can only recommend to visit this city to everyone who goes to Budapest... it is not that complicated to get in there and the experience is worth it.
We visited few museums there f.e.: Margit Kovacs museum of ceramics and some Jewish monuments as well as nice orthodox churches which are all around the city. There are orthodox churches because of Serbian families living there since centuries - nowadays there are about 100 Serbian families.
City is also full of nice small merchant houses. There's also a possibility to walk around the river Danube and buy a ticket for the ferry which carries You to the Island.
And somewhere here in my albums are pics from Szentendre
Oh, and I would almost forgot - we visited Mediaeval Jewish Prayer House on the Buda castle area. Great place too! The kabbalistic paintings on the ceiling are nice and there are also some wich are not obviously revealed yet...
Рудиsmurf29 # Thursday, September 4, 2008 6:33:29 PM