Archive for September, 2006
Today is day of
MALVIN in Hungary.
This name comes from German means something like: friend of the justice
Theme Day within the DP family. The topic is: Taxi. I took this photo couple of weeks ago when i came home with taxi after a hard day. Usually I use this company…….Főtaxi (means: main-taxi). The text on the door is their slogen. “Meglepetések helyett (Instead of surprises)”. And yes..at times when you choose the wrong type taxi in Budapest…you might be surprised after getting the bill!
more info on Budapest taxis
here and more photos of this taxi
hereOther Taxi photos from all over the world you can find here:
1 (Porto ) -2 (Albuquerque ) -3 (London ) -4 (Seattle, WA (USA) [Kim] ) -5 (Edinburgh ) -6 (Stayton, OR ) -7 (Greenville, SC ) -8 (Budapest ) -9 (Antigua Guatemala ) -10 (Alexandria, VA ) -11 (Manila ) -12 (Twin Cities ) -13 (Szentes ) -14 (Paris ) -15 (Portsmouth ) -16 (Ryde ) -17 (Sydney ) -18 (Oulu ) -19 (Singapore [keropok] ) -20 (Santiago ) -21 (Melbourne, Aust ) -22 (Dubai UAE ) -23 (Bandung (Indonesia) ) -24 (Copenhagen ) -25 (Sequim ) -26 (Singapore ) -27 (Tenerife ) -28 (Sharon, CT ) -29 (Tuzla, B&H ) -30 (Jakarta (Indonesia) ) -31 (Rotterdam ) -32 (Brussels ) -33 (Stavanger (Norway) ) -34 (Aliso Viejo, CA ) -35 (Oshawa, ON, Canada ) -36 (Vantaa, Finland ) -37 (Trier (Germany)) -38 (Newcastle upon Tyne ) -39 (Hong Kong ) -40 (Shang Hai ) -41 (Brussels ) -42 (San Diego, CA (USA) ) -43 (Sydney (Nathalie)) -44 (St Paul (USA)) -
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about Theme day: Taxi ... posted by Zsolt
In Hungary we celebrate Name-days. To every day of the year belongs a firstname. Today is the day of JEROMOS. This name has a greek origine. Means: having a holy name. So greetings to every JEROMOS:)
Weeks ago I posted the tulips…the present of Holland people to Hungary. And now here is the present of Canada. The waterfall is in the Westend City Center mall. It seems nations like to give presents for us:) Thank you CANADA:)
Some more photos you can see here….and a video here.
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There are 50 years between this two photos. The
first one was taken in 1956 during the revolution and the second was was taken yesterday afternoon by me. In front of the statue is a bus and trolleybus station nowdays and almost every day I wait here for my bus.
The trees has grown. The ruins got rebuilt.
People gone.
But we still remember.
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about 32-esek square ... posted by Zsolt
This is the building of the
Corvinus University of Budapest. The word Corvinus refers to the name of King Matthias Corvinus (1443-1490). He have got this name because his familie’s coat of arm depicts a raven which is corvus in latin.
The Hunyadi is one of the most famous family in the Hungarian history and surely he was the most popular king. There are a lot of tales about him when he changed his clothes and went to the country-side, dressing like a poor wanderer student and when he faced some injustice he discovered his real identity saving the victims from the abusing wicked local noblement.
After he died the phrase became a commonplace: Matthias died, and so did the justice.
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Budapest is not only about nice historical buildings. A lot of people live in soviet-type blockhouses. They started to build these type of houses in the ’60s to create several living opportunities for people moving from the villages to the industrial centers…to the cities.
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He/she has a dream. We dont know what is it…he/she didnt share it with us. The Hungarian text of the graffiti is like “one more thing, and pls dont steal my…….(and the last word is nosense to me).” Deep secrets..
Anyway…I have a dream, too. One day having nice clean trains only in Budapest.
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I have found an older photo which is less direct then the previous one but still expresses what I wanted to express.
Every year is an Erotic Exhibition in Budapest. Actually it would be better to call it Porn Exhibition as in fact the main “exhibitors” are from the porn industry. The structure is like in any other fields, just like a travel exhibition but here instead of travel agency leaflets you can find porn magazines and dildos, and instead of intellectual presentations you can watch shows like this.
Yesterday I read about the sexual culture in Japan from Macky on the
Tokyo daily photo site (search for his Sept 8. post)…and it made me think about the cultural differences regarding this issue. I dont know too much about Japan. I know about the Geisha culture but I dont know how it is nowdays. Macky’s description gave me a short insight.
I know pretty well our culture here…and if you look at this photo carefully you can get some impressions.p.s.: I hope I didnt offend anyone with this photo. I want to show this “world” as it is.
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At some places
graffiti is legal in the city. They encourage artists to create
graffiti on walls of old abandoned factories. Some says this is not a
graffiti anymore because a real graffiti has to be illegal. I dont know too much about this, but I like this kind of “professional” works better then pure tags everywhere in
Budapest.
Hard to catch these long wall with a single camera so I created a video time ago about it. You can see it
here. And other
graffiti here.
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These broadcasting stations are standing in front of the parliament building. Looking at them I feel like being in Steven Spielberg’s E.T.:)
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about Broadcasting ... posted by Zsolt
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