The heat here is like 44 deg C ! Too hot and I felt breathless with a combination of dizzy spells in the head just like deprivation of oxygen in a sauna :(
The Budapest city council sent out about 90 municipal workers and volunteers to distribute 22,000 bottles and 15,000 plastic bags with drinking water across the capital. Water trucks can also be seen to cool streets and sidewalks and about 2,000 fountains were opened in parks. The Budapest city transport company also kept delivering water to passengers at major bus and streetcar stops. Somehow these gestures by the city council are commendable :)

How is the weather in your city now?

The heat here is like 44 deg C ! Too hot and I felt breathless with a combination of dizzy spells in the head just like deprivation of oxygen in a sauna :( The Budapest city council sent out about 90 municipal workers and volunteers to distribute 22,000 bottles and 15,000 plastic bags with drinking ...

Our guest for this week is Korom.

This is the entrance of the renewed Café New York. Its one the most famous Cafés in Budapest situated in a 19th century Art Nouveau townhouse of palatial proportions. The café’s opulent interiors and literary associations have endowed it with near mythical status. Like other cafés, it was originally popular with writers for purely practical reasons: it offered a warm refuge from cold rented rooms that they could scarcely afford – and paper and ink were gratis. Though today you’re likelier to rub shoulders with fellow tourists rather than struggling scribes, the New York still counts editors of literary magazines among its habitués. When the café first opened, one of Hungary’s most famous playwrights of the last century, Ferenc Molnár, and his colleagues tossed its key into the Danube so that its doors might never shut. Which means you can still enjoy a steaming hot cappuccino accompanied by a plate of somlói galuska, a triad of creamy, chocolatey dessert dumplings, or a host of other luscious offerings. From gotoHungary.

Soon we will show the Café’s beautiful interior.

Special Guests’ photos featured previously:

S.Lo’s Budapest

Habeebee’s Budapest

Gabor’s Budapest

Antennae’s Budapest

Nora’s Budapest

Marikp1018’s Budapest

Molamoni’s Budapest

Feri’s Budapest

Gosia’s Budapest

Pihe’s Budapest

Aniko’s Budapest 1.

Aniko’s Budapest 2.

Aniko’s Budapest 3.

Aniko’s Budapest 4.

Aniko’s Budapest 5.

Here’s how to ‘Be our Guest Photographer‘:

On the Flickr, we have opened a group called Budapest Award Group where everyone can add his/her Budapest photos and thus everyone is free to the awarding of the ‘Budapest Award’ to any photos in the group. Hence, every week the most popular photo will be invited to be featured on the Budapest DP.

Our guest for this week is Korom. This is the entrance of the renewed Café New York. Its one the most famous Cafés in Budapest situated in a 19th century Art Nouveau townhouse of palatial proportions. The café's opulent interiors and literary associations have endowed it with near mythical status. Like other cafés, it ...

There are at least 10 casinos in Budapest. And easily I spotted one here in Budapest :) Do you agree that it is one way to boost tourism in a city?:)

What are your views: Are you against or for CASINO?:)

There are at least 10 casinos in Budapest. And easily I spotted one here in Budapest :) Do you agree that it is one way to boost tourism in a city?:) What are your views: Are you against or for CASINO?:)

Its terribly hot in Budapest nowadays. We had 39 degree Celsius today and they said that it will be 40-42 deg C for Thursday. Something we have never experienced before. There is a 1st level heat-alarm in the country which is also something never happened before. The only period of the day when you can be outside is the early morning and the late evening. Are we becoming a Mediterranean climate country?

Its terribly hot in Budapest nowadays. We had 39 degree Celsius today and they said that it will be 40-42 deg C for Thursday. Something we have never experienced before. There is a 1st level heat-alarm in the country which is also something never happened before. The only period of the day when you ...

The Szabadság híd or Liberty Bridge, sometimes called Freedom Bridge, was opened in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph; the last silver rivet on the Pest abutment was inserted into the iron structure by the Emperor himself, and the bridge was originally named after him. The top of the four masts are decorated with large bronze statues of the Turul which looked really majestic in real ;)
Many trams cross the twin-road bridge, which is also heavily burdened with car traffic, and there is an initiative to convert it to a pedestrian-only crossing once the fourth underground metro line is completed in Budapest in the coming decade.

The Szabadság híd or Liberty Bridge, sometimes called Freedom Bridge, was opened in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph; the last silver rivet on the Pest abutment was inserted into the iron structure by the Emperor himself, and the bridge was originally named after him. The top of the four masts are decorated ...

Today is 14th of March..I mean July (thank you Natalie!). This day is not special in Hungary…but it’s the national holiday in France. And every year we celebrate it with a festival. I guess the celebration has no political significance (for example we do not celebrate the American 4th of July) but more to do with the great activity of the French Institute in Budapest who organize this event every year.

More photos you can see here.

To honour France’s national holiday I copy here the report on the event in French too:

Bal de rue et marché des régions française Samedi 14 et dimanche 15 juillet, 12h, Institut Français, Quai Bem
A l’occasion de la Fête nationale et de l’ouverture de l’Année économique de la France en Hongrie, le Quai Bem se métamorphosera en bal populaire pour deux journées chaleureuses et festives.

Les visiteurs pourront apprécier le programme musical proposé par des artistes français (venus de Bretagne, de Corse…) et hongrois tout en flânant le long des stands de spécialités régionales (culinaires et artisanales) proposées par les régions françaises. Suivant la tradition, un feu d’artifice sera tiré sur le Danube à la tombée de la nuit, le samedi 14.

Today is 14th of March..I mean July (thank you Natalie!). This day is not special in Hungary...but it's the national holiday in France. And every year we celebrate it with a festival. I guess the celebration has no political significance (for example we do not celebrate the American 4th of July) but more to ...

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Taken a little distance away from the Elizabeth Bridge, the bridges from afar has a string of lightings that gives it the outline brightly that shines brightly in this beautiful blue twilight. In Summer, the sun sets really late at about 9:30pm. What time does the sunset in your city these days?:)

The Erzsébet bridge is one of the most modern lookin bridge in Budapest. Though its not so young. The original Erzsébet Bridge, along with many other bridges all over the country, was blown up at the end of World War II by retreating Wehrmacht sappers. This is the only bridge in Budapest which could not be rebuilt in its original form. Pictures and some salvaged elements from the old bridge can be seen on the grass in front of the Museum of Transport in City Park.

The currently standing slender white cable bridge was built on the very same location between 1961–1964, because the government could not afford to construct entirely new foundations for the bridge. The main spar cables of the bridge are hexagonal in cross section, composed of thousands of elementary steel wires of seven different diametres, partly because early computers were unable to provide solution for a circular cross section main cable batch.

The novel design, planned by Pál Sávoly, was a first in Central Europe and not without weaknesses. Tram traffic and its heavy tracks had to be removed from the bidge in 1973 after signs of cracks appeared in the structure. The 2×3 lane Erzsébet bridge is relatively well maintained because it is part of the route where foreign dignitaries are being taken from Ferihegy Airport to the government quarter. wikipedia

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p.s. The answer to ‘mini quiz’ in yesterday’s post is POWER.
Water and rivers symbolises POWER in the east, so have you got the right guess?:)
Hope you had fun!

The Erzsébet bridge is one of the most modern lookin bridge in Budapest. Though its not so young. The original Erzsébet Bridge, along with many other bridges all over the country, was blown up at the end of World War II by retreating Wehrmacht sappers. This is the only bridge in Budapest which could ...

I dunno whether you consider this elegance, but to me it is. A street lamps with these degree of ornate decorations are seen widely in Budapest. And this one even has a turul which is the national bird of Hungary. Its symbolism is ‘STRENGTH’. Do you know what the rivers and water symbolises on the east?

(A) Wealth

(B) Emotions
(C) Power

(D) Purity

(E) None of the Above (It symbolises:_______)
pls fill in your own if you choose Option E

I dunno whether you consider this elegance, but to me it is. A street lamps with these degree of ornate decorations are seen widely in Budapest. And this one even has a turul which is the national bird of Hungary. Its symbolism is 'STRENGTH'. Do you know what the rivers and water symbolises on ...

Our guest for this week is S.Lo.

The tramway 6 and 4 is the most crowded and busy line in Budapest. Actually they embrace the entire downtown starting from the Moszkva tér in Buda and after a large circle in Pest they arrive back to Buda but to its southern part. Almost the entire route is the same for both trams only the few last stops are different so here they call them together. The 4-6 (négyeshatos):)

Special Guests’ photos featured previously:

Habeebee’s Budapest

Gabor’s Budapest

Antennae’s Budapest

Nora’s Budapest

Marikp1018’s Budapest

Molamoni’s Budapest

Feri’s Budapest

Gosia’s Budapest

Pihe’s Budapest

Aniko’s Budapest 1.

Aniko’s Budapest 2.

Aniko’s Budapest 3.

Aniko’s Budapest 4.

Aniko’s Budapest 5.

Here’s how to ‘Be our Guest Photographer‘:

On the Flickr, we have opened a group called Budapest Award Group where everyone can add his/her Budapest photos and thus everyone is free to the awarding of the ‘Budapest Award’ to any photos in the group. Hence, every week the most popular photo will be invited to be featured on the Budapest DP.

Our guest for this week is S.Lo. The tramway 6 and 4 is the most crowded and busy line in Budapest. Actually they embrace the entire downtown starting from the Moszkva tér in Buda and after a large circle in Pest they arrive back to Buda but to its southern part. Almost the entire route ...

In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one’s own existence. An “object of beauty” is anything that reveals or resonates with personal meaning. Maybe that’s why CHANEL (the big brand in beauty products chooses this photo in this style to send out its message in Budapest). Seeing this, I was reminded the saying:”Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”

How many of you agree? ”Beauty lies in the eyes of the Beholder?” ;)

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Update from Zsolt: The other day I had a conversation with Zannnie. Her major is Marketing and she mentioned to me that in advertising: sex sells.

I was wondering if it works for men only. See the comments to yesterday’s post and you will get the answer.:)

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In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one's own existence. An "object of beauty" is anything that reveals or resonates with personal meaning. Maybe that's why CHANEL (the big brand in beauty products chooses this photo in this style to send out its ...