King Saint Stephen
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Summer Trip 2015 – Part 5 – Budapest

Summertrip 2015
Did search on the map for a campground. This one had good reviews and was pretty close to the center. You can take public transport to the town as well. Great! Once it was the last stop for a tram line. One day they replaced the tram with a bus so the building was not needed any longer. So years later the guys that have it now converted it into a camp ground. Not a lot of space but we had a good time. This was the old waiting area – now it is the restaurant.

Summertrip 2015
Great design – I called it Sputnik

Summertrip 2015
The seaman

Summertrip 2015
It really did rain like hell in the 1st night so we where happy to park under the bridge!

Summer 2015 - Budapest
We took the bus down town an walked to Buda Castle. You can spend a whole day here and check out the castle and the surrounding Medieval, Baroque, and 19th-century houses, churches, and public buildings.

Summer 2015 - Budapest
Must be a boring job but I guess more fun than the guards in front of the parliament in Athens have.

Summer Trip 2015 - Part 5 - Budapest 1
They have to do the big funny walk when they change guards and it is very hot in summer.

Summer 2015 - Budapest
Somehow it is the same as in Austria. People killing things – here children killing fish.

Summer 2015 - Budapest
It is called Fishing Children and done by Károly Senyey

Summer 2015 - Budapest

Summer 2015 - Budapest
Since I was here a few years ago I did take all the pictures. But the sky was not blue this time so I could take some nice ones with the light that was different this time. This is Stephen I, also known as King Saint Stephen. And one of the towers of the Fisherman’s Bastion.

Summer 2015 - Budapest
View over the Danube with the parliament in the back.

Summer 2015 - Budapest
The Holy Trinity Statue

Summer 2015 - Budapest
Some bring flowers and some shoot arrows!

Summer 2015 - Budapest
Holy Trinity Statue and the Matthias Church

Summer 2015 - Budapest
One of the towers of Matthias Church

Summer 2015 - Budapest
More details

Summer 2015 - Budapest
And more

Summer 2015 - Budapest
And even more details of Matthias Church

Summer 2015 - Budapest
I like the Raven on the roof of the southern high tower. It is the Hunyadi-s coat of arms a raven holding a golden ring in its beak.

Summer 2015 - Budapest
King Mathias

Summer 2015 - Budapest
King Saint Stephen was the last Grand Prince of the Hungarians between from 997 and the first King of Hungary from 1000 or 1001 until his death in 1038.

Summer 2015 - Budapest
The parliament building where the National Assembly works. Construction did start in 1885 and the building was finished in 1904. If you ever make it to Budapest – take a tour in the building. The inside is as beautiful as the outside!

Summer 2015 - Budapest
One of the seven towers of the Fisherman’s Bastion. Why fisherman? The guild of fishermen that was responsible for defending this stretch of the city walls in the Middle Ages. Today it is one of the best places to view over the other the Danube and city of Budapest.

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