Beautiful structure - roof made of porcelain ! Queen Victoria ordered china from Hungary - little flowers and butterflies - known as the Victorian pattern. 65% of Budapest is Roman Catholic, 25 %, Protestant. They have the second largest synagogue in Europe.

Buda, on the left of the picture, and Pest on the right and another area called Obuda united in 1873 to create Budapest. This area, where Europe and Asia meet, was first settled in 896 and has had a very checkered past. Budapest is only 260 km from Vienna and copied much of their architecture. During their golden ages (1867 - 1918) they shared the rule as the Austro-Hungarian empire. After WWI, they lost 2/3 of their land and things have gone downhill with the N...

Room overlooked Danube. Cone like structures represent tents used to preserve hilly Buda from those advancing over the plains of Pest. White building across is Parliament. Downstream a bit are bronze shoes on a wall commemorating the many Jews who were shot and thrown in the river All entries will be labeled Prague as I didn't put the other cities in to begin with . Off to see some horses!

These concrete dwellings were made by the communists. They are being spruced up with paint. Traveled through forested hills, then much farmland ( complete with manure smell) over very bumpy highway. If we'd had a bottle of cream , it would have been butter when we arrived. Trip was 9 hr as we were stalled an hour and a half with construction. Budapest is beautiful and our catamaran boat delightful Internet is very sporadic .T his is my 4 th attempt . Will sent ...

Bucharest is often called a " little Paris" with wide streets, it's own Arch deTriumph, a love of beauty and a statue of Charles de Gaul replacing earlier ones of Lenis and Stalin. We went from the Parliamentary Palace to see another beautiful sanctuary decorated with much gold and then to an outdoor museum where over 100 earlier homes in Romania have been transported and preserved. The one pictured is one of the earliest. It is dug into the earth so the straw ...