Budapest 2025.2

Time for more Kolodko, of course.

Frigyes Karinthy (1887–1938) was an author who also translated some H.G. Wells and A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh into Hungarian.

Garfield looking smug on the fence of the University of Veterinary Medicine.All the fence posts used to have animal faces on them, but many have disappeared. This one is of course new.

A bit later (we went back to Tanya’s favourite Budapest shop) we were on the tram and I spotted something on the wall (the same wall that has the tank and the worm and the Russian soldier we saw last time.

This one is new. It’s also not a Kolodko, it’s by Gergő Ámmer, and commemorates Ádám Török, a flutist-singer-songwriter who passed away in 2023. After a few weeks, it was stolen, and then recovered on the other side of the river.

Got back on the tram, went to look for the Kolodko we searched for in vain last time.

In Vino Veritas. Once I realised that the Aquincum civil amphitheatre and the Aquincum military amphitheatre are two different places a few kilometers apart, it was easy (he is at the military amphitheatre).

Prince Árpád led the Magyar tribes when they settled in what is now Hungary, and is regarded by many as the founder of the country.

We found some cherries on a tree, giving us hope that we would have cherries at Globoka (last time we were there it had been a bad year for cherries).

And then we took the Metro to the other side of town to see the meerkat in front of the Children’s Clinic in District VIII.

Not a mini-statue. Budapest has the most diverse statues…

Chicken Thief “Csirkefogó”

That pretty much wraps up Budapest. There was a Wine & Champagne Festival the evening but by now out get up and go had most thoroughly got up and went, so that didn’t happen.