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travelogue: Budapest
May. 28th, 2011 11:43 pmI am sitting at my computer, on the ship docked on the river at Budapest. It's been a long day, and tomorrow will be longer.
We get up and go at 7:30am, putting our bags out at 6:30am, heading for Prague, where we'll spend the next three nights before flying home.
Budapest is a beautiful city and I am so coming back here when I next hit Europe. It's the bridges and the monuments, the history - not just the 1000 year history, but the pre-WWII and the post-Fall-of-the-Iron-Curtain aspects. The political history, the stuff that I never heard about in history classes, the conflict-torn landscapes that I can barely comprehend when I fly back over my country that's so old in its bones and yet so young when it comes to the harsh hand of humanity inflicted on its landscape.
I have some thoughts on my trip through Europe and my interest in other countries. I'll see if I can articulate them on the bus to Prague tomorrow.
In the meantime, I shall try to sleep while my roomie tries to finish the book she started earlier this trip and is determined to finish before we disembark tomorrow morning!
We get up and go at 7:30am, putting our bags out at 6:30am, heading for Prague, where we'll spend the next three nights before flying home.
Budapest is a beautiful city and I am so coming back here when I next hit Europe. It's the bridges and the monuments, the history - not just the 1000 year history, but the pre-WWII and the post-Fall-of-the-Iron-Curtain aspects. The political history, the stuff that I never heard about in history classes, the conflict-torn landscapes that I can barely comprehend when I fly back over my country that's so old in its bones and yet so young when it comes to the harsh hand of humanity inflicted on its landscape.
I have some thoughts on my trip through Europe and my interest in other countries. I'll see if I can articulate them on the bus to Prague tomorrow.
In the meantime, I shall try to sleep while my roomie tries to finish the book she started earlier this trip and is determined to finish before we disembark tomorrow morning!
