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We had an American friend who visited us in Budapest with his family (his wife and his 21 year old son) in June 2000. They were spending 5 days in Budapest. They were sleeping in our apartment. They came from Tennessee, USA. They had specials requests:
The were vegetarian.
They were believers of the Seventh Day Adventists and requested to take part in a Sabbath church service.
The husband had fixed in his e-mails in advance that they wanted to see the Great Synagogue of Budapest.
They arrived by train from Paris to the Keleti Station. (There is another terminal station worth to see. in Budapest, the Nyugati, designed by Eiffel. The Déli is an ugly concrete cube.)
I was waiting for them with my twenty-ager student daughter. They admired the hall of the terminal the we went home by streetcars. The streetcars were passing by the walls of the Kerepesi National Cemetery.
As soon as my wife arrived home from work, we took again the tram, and showed them the Margaret Island and the Castle. See their photos on my home page.
If you have more time, especially you are Moslim do not miss the Gül Baba Türbe, sepulchre of the priest who died from happiness just after the ceremony when Sultan Soliman captured Buda in 1541. It is not far from the Margaret Bridge, on Mosque lane (Mecset utca).
The visit of the Great Synagogue and the National Museum was scheduled to the second day. See the collection of the photos. The Synagogue offers tape-recorders iwth headsets with guide in several languages.
The goals of the third day were: the Adventists, the Heroes Square, the City Park, the Museum of Transport, and a restaurant with buffet. (The Museum is being moved elsewhere, the Sissy restaurant has closed.) We could see an emerging. Somebody translated to my friends the speech. My friends liked the cottage cheese dumplings.
Fourth day: We went to the excursion to the Buda hills, from Normafa (bungalow selling rétes) to Jánoshegy. We climbed up to the belvedere Elizabeth (526 m) then traveled by the childrens’ Railway to Hűvösvölgy - LÁNGOS.
I lead my guests on the last day to the ruins and open-air museum of the Roman frontier-guard town, Aquincum which is at the Danube North from the Castle.
Indeed the Roman Limes followed the Danube. The Romans built two amphitheatres, aqueducts. Finally I lead them across the Elizabeth bridge to the Váci utca.
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The visit of the Beckett family at the Nagy family in Budapest, at June 2000 |
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