Budapest Continues....
Wednesday, April 30, 2008This is hotel Charles. Not a luxurious hotel like I mentioned. But its good enuf for us. =)
Made out way to see The Szabadság Szobor or Liberty Statue (a.k.a Freedom Statue). It was first erected in 1947 in remembrance of the Soviet liberation of Hungary from Nazi forces during WWII. Its location upon Gellert Hill makes it a prominent feature of Budapest's cityscape.
The existing 14 meter tall bronze statue stands atop a 26 meter pedestal and holds a palm branch. Several smaller statues are also present around the base, but the original monument consisted of several more that have since been removed from the site and relocated to Statue Park. The statue is very prominent when we are strolling along the Danube River.
Some tankers on top of the hill.....
The Elizabeth Bridge that connects buda and pest....We travel along this bridge almost every nite...
As we descend from the hill, there is another monument which u can't see directly face to face, unless you want to fall down lo.... hee... This saint was actually thrown down the valley due to some reasons that we didnt find out.....hur hur hur...
At Elizabeth Bridge on foot....
Nah, the saint statue that u can only see when u reached the bottom of the hill.
Can u spot the Freedom Statue behind me!?
time to take our lunch, italian this time. Livingstone enjoying his daily dosage of kopi (huf 280),
and my tea, served with lemon (huf 280).
We ordered only 1 pizza to share, and the chef cuts it up for us (even without us telling him to do so, haha....) ....quite clever lo. Pizza hawaii (huf 1680).
Proceeded to the 'champs-elysees-of-budapest' -- Andrassy Road
House of terror....not haunted, but a musuem of secret agents and their activities...
Another one of my fav shot in budapest....
We are catching the Carmen opera in the Opera House tonite!!! Had booked the ticket via the internet mths ago!! So we had to catch dinner first. Simple dinner at the foodcourt of Westend City Centre:
Pasta Fungi (huf 590)
Grilled chicken (huf 699)
the foodcourt:
Back to the Opera House. Many pple dressed up for the play, waiting outside the building for their partners to arrive.
Our online ticket. Very Very cheap.....i think we merely paid abt SGD$4 per ticket... haha
And when we purchased the tickets, there wasn't much seats to select....this is actually a blocked view as stated on the web....seriously we didnt noe wat to expect. haha...
In the Opera house:
The grand stairway:
inside the theatre while waiting for the show to start.
Our view...
Not bad at all la, most of the time we had to stand (although there were seats for us). We couldn't understand the language at all, but the pple dancing and singing on the stage really entertained us the entire nite! And we were not the only wan standing, those pple who got the blocked view tickets all stood with us, haha....It is actually seats in a balcony and only 2 pple are allowed to stand in every balcony i guessed.
