These policemen are mostly for attracting tourists. But at times they use them against football hooligans around stadions. If you look at the picture carefully you can see they even have a sword. But I never seen them using it. Maybe when they will have to arrest the Highlander one day:)
The summer is definitelly over. Today the University started to me, too. The summer is obviously over:( This is a quite new building of the largest University in Hungary called ELTE. My workplace. But thanks God my office’s windows is on the other side having a view to the…..ok..ok….only to the terrace:)
The last three pics from my Parliament collection belong to each other too much to be separated by titles and dates or even by single lines. If I post them one by one it will be like posting the same photos for three days. But keeping them together you can see the transition. This is the way getting dark in Budapest:)
They say they used 40kg gold during the construction of the building. And a few years ago they brought the Crown of St. Stephen to the Parliament Building from the National Museum, too. …But hey..what the hell is the helicopter doing there?:)
In the next 5 days I will post a series of photos about the Parliament Building. They started to build it in 1885 and was completed in 1904.
This is the Western Railway Station. Dont ask why they call it “western”. It is located to the middle of the city and trains mostly goes to the Eastern part of the country from here.:)
It was opened in 1877 constructed by the same Eiffel company which built the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
This street is in the Palace of Buda. Basically its a touristic area I rarely go there up to the hill but years ago I used to work in this area for the Hungarian Scientifical Academy for a couple of months. My days started there very late and at times I left in the late evening. Walking on the empty streets I could hear my own steps and those street lights were on at times already.