Strolling around Budapest, second part

In the seven days of walking around we fell in love with Budapest. To discover a city it's necessary to stay more time than that, specially if it's one as full of details and styles as this one.

These melancholic rooftops made me dream of an atelier right under one of those domes and a piano, so my lover can play some Liszt while we drink the flavorful national wines.

 

One day we went to walk around the Jewish district. So wild and apparently decadent but full of life.

This day it was raining. Budapest looks so good when it rains.

This are photos of the Liberty Square, with enormous buildings of different styles and layers of time  that have turned the domes green and some walls black. Exactly there is the last monument of the communist era.

 

 

 Street after street of beautiful buildings.

 

Here a banker's caprice: his own palace.

And now, the night:

 

 This is how the Parliament looks from Buda's shore

 

 and this is how Buda looks from the side of Pest. The Royal Palace at the distance.

 

We crossed the bridge the first night we arrived, surrounded by the fog rising from the river we were lost in time.

In the third part: Budapest is too cool!

Strolling around Budapest

Hi. I'm back from vacations and ready to begin working on new designs for Lirio, new projects, some study and to continue my very intense physical training (more on that in following days).

But first I want to show you some photos of Budapest. A fantastically beautiful city.

I'll be showing you my trip images in 4 parts so you won't get annoyed with too many photos.

Let's begin.

Budapest, January  2010.

A brilliant day to go up the hill and watch the city in all her splendor from the Royal Palace.

At the feet of the Palace Hill the Danube. This is the Chain Bridge, one of the many bridges that comunicate Buda and its hills with Pest at the other shore. The art nouveau building in front of the bridge is the Gresham Palace, nowadays a hotel.
I loved to cross that bridge, at day and at night time.

The city extends along the Danube with impressive buildings like this one:

The Parliament

To my left the Fishermen's Bastion, a fairy tale - like construction built solely as a viewing platform. Behind that... the Buda hills.

Tomorrow I will show you some streets and squares of Budapest.

Happy 2010!!

HAPPY 2010

Is this year already a delight?

I salute you from a silent and snow covered Germany. My first days of the year are being spent listening to history podcasts, eating homemade pizza and watching the snow fall down.

For the first time in years I am excited about the idea of a new year and I have faith in this 2010. There are many decisions to make, some fun projects in my head and in a few days I will begin a demanding fitness challenge with a trainer from Japan on the web (hence the pizza abuse).

But before I begin with full energy I am taking a trip to Budapest. My love and I in a romantic episode by the Danube.

Soon I will post some photos of two rings I made in December and I will tell you my adventures with the stone setters and the mail.

Have a fantastic year, filled with plans and action, adventures and music.
What projects do you have? What dreams would you like to see come true?