{"id":5303,"date":"2023-06-20T16:16:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2024-01-10T06:41:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T04:41:01","slug":"budapest-part-1-pic-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5303","title":{"rendered":"Budapest (Part 1, pic heavy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random stuff, in no particular order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3368cra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5304\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3368cra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where we stayed, on F\u00f6 utca. The Batthy\u00e1ny t\u00e9r metro station is on the right hand side of the photograph.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2928rr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2928rr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3718r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3718r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The M3 metro line is the deepest of the lot, since it runs under the river (M1, the second oldest metro line in the world, runs just under Andrassi \u00fat).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3724r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3724r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2953r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2953r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google Maps tells me that this <em>was originally the tombstone of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lujza_Blaha\">Lujza Blaha<\/a>. That&#8217;s why the shepherd playing the flute is so sad, and that&#8217;s why the first line of S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi&#8217;s poem &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcanum.com\/en\/online-kiadvanyok\/Verstar-verstar-otven-kolto-osszes-verse-2\/petofi-sandor-DFB2\/1843-E189\/kis-furulyam-szomorufuz-aga-E28B\/\">SAD BRANCH OF MY LITTLE FLUTE<\/a>&#8221; can be read on the side<\/em> (&#8220;Kis furuly\u00e1m szomor\u00faf\u0171z \u00e1ga&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3736r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3736r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"http:\/\/budapestdanube.com\/the-great-danube-flood-1838\/\">Danube river flooded in 1938<\/a> Baron Wesselenyi saved lots of people using a boat he had floating around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2948rr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2948rr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3743cr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3743cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3770rcr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3770rcr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Yea, the grafitti sucks)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3769cr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3769cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"714\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2961cr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2961cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the monument to Carl Lutz, who saved an estimated 60 thousand Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2960cr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5316\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2960cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whoever saves a life is considered to have saved an entire world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2963cr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2963cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2983rx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2983rx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2986cr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5321\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_2986cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Statue to the anonymous dude who wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gesta_Hungarorum\"><em>La Gesta Hungarorum \/ The Deeds of the Hungarians<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random stuff, in no particular order. That&#8217;s where we stayed, on F\u00f6 utca. The Batthy\u00e1ny t\u00e9r metro station is on the right hand side of the photograph. The M3 metro line is the deepest of the lot, since it runs under the river (M1, the second oldest metro line in the world, runs just under Andrassi \u00fat). Google Maps tells me that this was originally the tombstone of Lujza Blaha. That&#8217;s why the shepherd playing the flute is so sad, and that&#8217;s why the first line of S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi&#8217;s poem &#8220;SAD BRANCH OF MY LITTLE FLUTE&#8221; can be read on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-2023","category-travelography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5505,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/5505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}