budapest roundup
lion entry to the Chain Bridge.. built by British engineer Adam Clark, who is said to have proclaimed the bridge perfect, boasting that if anyone could find a fault with it, he would throw himself into the Danube. When it became circulated that the lions did not have tongues, he leapt off the bridge to his death in a publicized ceremony. a lovely bedtime story.
Children are also told that the great tunnel on the Buda side of the bridge was built for one sole purpose - that during rainstorms, the bridge be drawn into it to protect its eternal beauty.
From the Gellert spa... ridiculously old world. 75 year old men with "diapers" - pieces of white cloth on a string - clinging to their genitals while leaving their backsides exposed, except when they would sit down on the benches, when they would swivel the diaper around and expose alternately their wet members. i felt hungarian.
unreal architecture and adornment every-where. this from a church...
this from a spa (Gellert again)
and this from a mere passage..
Budapest! Have you never been bombed?