Flying from San Diego to San Francisco and then to Frankfurt doesn't feel like a "zooming" experience, but stepping onto the moving walkway between the international section and the national section at this very busy airport was almost surreal. I couldn't resist trying to get an image that would capture that feeling. This is the result.
Nothing says BUDAPEST more clearly than the extraordinary Parliament Building on the banks of the Danube. Nothing expresses the horror of the Holocoust more jarringly than the Shoes on the Danube Pomenade, created by Gyula Pauer and Can Togay. The stark memorial reminder of that awful time in human history is located not far from the Parliament Building. Check it out online: (www.flixya.com/video/339066/Budapest_Jewish_holocaust_memorial)After we were properly reminded of that very bad period in our past, and after we were cautioned that it could happen again, we went on to discover a lively, energetic city. Budapest is not a morbid place. There are reminders everywhere, however, of the cold war pressures on Hungary, none more dramatic than in the park not from the shoe monument. I was shooed away from where I was trying to take a picture of the American Embassy. Ironically I was standing not far from the only Russian monument left in the city.
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