Monday, September 25, 2006

Mas Fotografias!

As promised here are a few more pictures... again, I wish I could show you some of the super cute ones with all three of us from Budapest, but SOMEBODY doesn't wanna be on the internet, and I promised to respect that (though not to refrain from complaining about it!).
This picture is a bit out of sequence, as Blogger was being a bugger with this particular one. It is the gate at the Palace in Buda, and it should fall right before the Chain Bridge pix below... We took the funicular railway to get up the giant hill on the Buda side, and this is what we saw just outside the little train station, though this shot was taken just as we were about to head down, having had several rounds of espresso and a salami pizza (and listening to some really bad Celine Dion covers) - woot!
This is the Great Market Hall in Budapest. It was built in 1896 (I think) for the city's millenium celebration. Now, it houses loads of fresh food vendors on the main floor, as well as touristy-stuff vendors on the upper level and a modern supermarket in the basement where Rob and I had a very good time. (And I got the paprika peanuts that Lady went nuts for... har har.)
This is the Hungarian Parliament building, which is spectacular in the daytime and at night... it was even more spectacular (in the literal sense) that day, as there were protesters everywhere. You may be able to see their heads in the bottom of this photo, though I actually tried to cut them out and just get the building. (Don't worry, I documented the people as well...)
This is Chain Bridge, which crosses the Danube and is probably the prettiest bridge of all the ones in town. I have about six million pictures of it, day and night. We walked across it from Pest to Buda and back again, and it offered some incredible photographic opportunities of both the city and itself.
Chain Bridge...again...
Bratislava's Old Town. Lady and I ran through here, and then the three of us walked back down through it for dinner and drinks later in the evening.
Some random pretty building in Bratislava - maybe the National Theatre?
Promise to post some more tomorrow... maybe more from London if you want them, or maybe just Amsterdam, or maybe both... depends on how much time I have. Rob has some of the funniest ones from Budapest, and I hope he will post them when he gets a chance. Many are from the night I was too drunk to play photographer (and don't remember much of, either), and the ones I do have from that night all have you-know-who in them, so... you're outta luck 'til then.

4 Comments:

Blogger d-town said...

all very good. mine are in my flickr account now, but they're not edited. am working on that this week sometime. there are a lot of them.

11:15 AM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Raawwwb! said...

Hooray for pictures!

Unfortunately mine won't be online until I get back as the cord is in Atlanta, but I promise to do a very comprehensive posting as soon as I get back!

7:05 AM, September 27, 2006  
Blogger Elizabeth said...

I thought you were a photograph pro--can't you edit the pictures so SOMEONE's face is not recognizable? Like they do in the media, ya ken?

Real 'ladies' must remain discrete; they mustn't let 'uninvited parties' know about their escapades with 'foreign' lads and lassies.

5:35 PM, September 28, 2006  
Blogger Sally O'Malley said...

Okay, for my own amusement, I must insert my favorite quote of Rob quoting Margaret Thatcher: "Being powerful is like being a lady - if you have to tell people that you are, then you aren't." But you are! And we love you for it.

6:24 PM, September 28, 2006  

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