Friday I took the train to Budapest...my first time in the Hungarian capital city. I had planned to travel to BP Thursday, but I started doing laundry Wednesday night and I knew I needed a part of the day Thursday to finish (More on that later).
I'm in a hostel tonight and tomorrow night, then Easter I plan to attend Mass at either St. Stephens Basilica or St. Matthias on Buda's Castle Hill. I spent this afternoon walking around and through both cathedrals, with most of the day on top of Castle Hill. I don't have the ability to post pictures to the blog from this computer, but when I get home or if I can find wifi I'll post some - at the end of the afternoon as I was about to walk down Castle Hill a horizon-to-horizon rainbow appeared right over the steeple of St. Matthias Cathedral! I took numerous pictures and I hope they capture the beauty of the moment.
Tomorrow I'll explore Pest (Buda is in the west side of the Danube, Pest is the east) and tell you what I find!
Szia for now!
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
~Mark Twain
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~G.K. Chesterton
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
~James Baldwin
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
~James Michener
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Mason Cooley
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~G.K. Chesterton
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
~Herman Melville
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
~Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
~Lao Tzu
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
~Mark Twain
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~G.K. Chesterton
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
~James Baldwin
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
~James Michener
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Mason Cooley
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~G.K. Chesterton
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
~Herman Melville
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
~Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
~Lao Tzu
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
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3 comments:
PB stands for Pest Buda?
Always the English teacher, aren't you? I've fixed the mistake.
Can't wait to see your pictures of Budapest. It's a city I always wanted to visit, but didn't have the time. And what a cool experience it should be to attend Easter Mass at a cathedral with such history. It seems like it would be so much richer of an experience knowing all the history that has come before.
Enjoy!
KL
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