Classy fifties-style underground trains - yeah!
The speed of Communist technology
An old lady sells flowers overlooking Moszkva Tér
Big skies over the Parliament
The Hungarian Parliament, a fantastic building
The Fisherman's Bastion, an exquisite 19th-century folly
The Bastion reflected in the Hilton Hotel, a 20th-century barnacle
Bernhard & I enjoy the delights of Budapest
Saint Stephen, the founding King of Hungary over 1000 years ago
What are you looking at?
Watch it, or I'll peck your nose off!
Two kinds of power
The mighty Danube
St Matthew's church, with its fine roof
The Holy Trinity column, a memorial to victims of the Plague
Coffee & cake at the traditional Café Ruszwurm
Entrancing a baby with live music
What a great eagle!
The Chain Bridge over the Danube
A fantastically talented young busker - he was REALLY astonishingly good
There's that eagle again
Me, snapping a crazy statue...
...of a dude with Obelix-like plaits
Tourist tat: somehow mesmerisingly colourful
Enormous statues on a rooftop in Buda
There's the Parliament again
Beep!
Beep beep!
The Parliament aglow in dusk sunlight
The Chain Bridge in close-up
More Chain Bridge lighting
One of the many, many, many rivets holding the thing together
Light at the end of the tunnel
Buda Castle looks more like a farmhouse in the setting sun
Hot tram action
Gotta love that twilight
Rolling a traditional Kürtöskalács (grilled tree-cake)
The remains of the day
Twin towers
Bernhard does an impression of his own teeshirt in the cellar bar by our hotel
Gloriously retro Metro station seating
The Academy of Applied Arts from the outside...
...and from the inside...
...with its splendid inner courtyard
The Central Market...
...with lots to buy...
...for instance horsemeat salami - yum!...
...and lots to eat too (here a Lángos with cheese & sour cream)...
...before you shop some more
The Freedom Bridge (formerly the Francis Joseph Bridge, after the Emperor who opened it 100 years ago)
A light fitting on the Freedom Bridge - fab!
A closer look at the Parliament
Pastel shades of Communist-era inner suburbs
A splendid Esterházy cake at the splendid Dunapark café
Budapest's oldest Metro line looks like a cross between the New York Subway and London's Bakerloo line
Outdoor bathing at the Széchenyi baths
Thankfully, the water was heated
Bathing long into the night
Europe's biggest synagogue
A big old church in central Pest
Out on the tiles, at Dupla bar
Drinking traditional Hungarian Unicum liqueur
Lunch at Abzint, one of Pest's many trendy locales
Outsize modern inventions on Déak Tér
And the steam iron works, too!
A crazy inside-out statue
Memento Park, half an hour's bus ride south of Buda
It's a collection of Communist-era statues that used to dot the city
The setting is bizarrely suburban
I'm not sure I'd want to live next to these big guys
A crumbling relic of past times
Bizarrely flat but huge
Whipping up a storm
Futile gestures from a bygone era
Spot the odd one out!
Mounting a charge
The empty boots of Communism
Sunset over Budapest
The Freedom Monument on Géllert Hill
They nearly took this collection of statues down too, but then didn't
Standing tall over the city
The Danube at dusk
A popular evening hang-out
The Elizabeth Bridge
Géllert, a missionary who was pushed from atop this hill to his death in the Danube by angry heathen Hungarian horsemen
Budapest on the move on Elizabeth Bridge
The Parliament yet again (I love it!)
Buda Castle
The Freedom Bridge
Elizabeth Bridge looks much better at night than by day
A pointy church at the end of Ráday Street, a tourist-tastic row of restaurants
Just what the world needs: more of me!
Bernhard poses for - and with - my camera
The only Hungarian food to be had on Oktogon Square: a bakery
The façade of Keleti station, surrounded by work on a new Metro line
