This little 250cc motorcycle belongs to my brother-in-law, Attila. He’s offered to let me use it while I’m in town. This Sunday (March 30) was the first day I got to use it.
Archive for March, 2008
Motorcycle in Budapest!
Monday, March 31st, 2008Szentendre
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Rainy day visit to Szentendre, an touristy/artsy village north of Budapest. Think Carmel, California or Woodstock, New York and you’re not far off. Train trip to the city, meet friends, walk a bit to the Danube, pizza, beer, walk to a cute café, coffee, desserts then back to Budapest.
Photo above is off the internet, since all of mine had smirking kids and dark clouds. Funny thing – the horse and carriage were there today for us as well. Camilla was brave enough to pet the horse. Dan-dan wasn’t. Aaron was asleep.
Aaron Dietrich Steussy – 6 Months Old
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Ostrich Egg Scrambled
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Libri International Bookstore, Budapest
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008When I was living abroad before, English bookstores were almost impossible to find. There was one large used bookstore in Prague (the Globe), which had at best an eclectic selection (the owners had people buy books at garage sales in the US and ship them over). There was a very expensive, very nice English bookstore in Moscow next to the KGB building in the early 90’s.
I was very surprised at how well-stocked the Libri bookstore on Vaci Utca in Budapest is. Two floors of English language books. The second photo is just their selection of recent science fiction titles. Certainly beats Readmore in New Castle, Indiana …
Funny—Jon Stewart
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Dear Diary
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
When I first imagined our time in Budapest, I thought it would be hardship, expense, dense language study and long nights working for my business all in the name of an occasional twenty minute break to sit at in an open street cafe, sipping coffee/beer/wine in the sun and saying, “Dang, I’m in Europe.” Today was one of those twenty minute days.
Gabi and I walked out of the apartment with no destination except to look at restaurants and take the best-looking one for lunch today. We walked to a pedestrian street (Vaci Utca) three short blocks away. The photos above show the street and one pub we stopped in front of. If you look in the distance, at the end of the street is the enclosed Farmers’ Market that we took Dan-dan and Camilla to our first week here (and wrote about on the blog).
We ended up at a Thai restaurant that Gabi had been to eleven years ago. Great food! And we stopped at an open street cafe for coffees and dessert. Sumptuous!
“Your 20 minutes are over! Back to work!”
Happy Easter!
Monday, March 24th, 2008Gabi’s Walking Tree
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008This is some really ancient history in Gyula. When Gabi was one year old, in August 1969, her family went on a visit to Gyula. The house shown here was owned by Gabi’s Great-Grandparents (parents of our kids’ Great-Grandma who lives in Budapest now). It was under the walnut tree here that Gabi first started walking.
The house is no longer in the family. We snapped the photo while driving by on the main road out of Gyula.
Gabi's Walking Tree
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008This is some really ancient history in Gyula. When Gabi was one year old, in August 1969, her family went on a visit to Gyula. The house shown here was owned by Gabi’s Great-Grandparents (parents of our kids’ Great-Grandma who lives in Budapest now). It was under the walnut tree here that Gabi first started walking.
The house is no longer in the family. We snapped the photo while driving by on the main road out of Gyula.