Tag: budapest
Alexandra Bookstore, Budapest
Back in fall 2014, we spent a long weekend in Budapest, Hungary. We have a couple more posts on this city before we put up photos from our Malaysian trip. While strolling along Andrássy út (Budapest’s Fifth Avenue), we came across this building with a rather impressive facade. The combination of art nouveau motifs and…
Our trips 2014 – part 1
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our first post of 2015. It is time to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. Some of you who knew me from New York probably think, judging from the posts here, that since we left for Switzerland, we travel a…
The Many Statues of Budapest
There appears to be lots of statues in Budapest … The bronze sculpture of a military man (or policeman ?) below is located two blocks behind our hotel – the first one we saw which sparked us looking at many more we encountered later throughout the city. Every tourist who passes cannot resist taking a…
Írók Boltja, Budapest
Írók Boltja (Writers’ Bookshop) is located on the busy corner of Andrássy street No. 45 and Liszt Ferenc square. It is just down the street from the gigantic Alexandra (see later post). The store is special because it has a history of more than a hundred years, always connected to writers and poets, and played…