Balkans

2009 Middle Europe

  Bratislava   Vienna   Memento Park   Budapest

Bratislava

St Martin's Cathedral (14th c. ++)

Bratislava Castle

Castle Gate

November '89 Exhibition at Bratislava Castle

November '89 Exhibition

Bratislava Castle aka the Four Poster Bed.

Danube + late-soviet bridge

Soviet WWII Memorial

"Man at Work"

Town Square

Lenin at the KGB Bar

Vienna

Soviet WWII Memorial

Soviet WWII Memorial

St Stephen's Cathedral (14th c. ++)

St Stephen;s Cathedral (14th c. ++) South Tower under restoration

St Stephen's interior

St Stephen's Roof

Hapsburg Crest in Roof Tiles

Hofburg Palace

Hofburg Palace

Imperial Treasury: Ewer & Basin

Holy Roman Empire Crown (11th c.)

Kunst Historisches Museum With snow flurries.

Blurry Breugel

The Danube, at Vienna

Memento Park

Memento Park

Lenin

Marx & Engels

"Stalin's Boots"

Scotsman at "Stalin's Boots"

Heroic Worker

Heroic Youth

Heroic Soldier

Snowy Lenin

Hungarian Communist Heroes

"They Killed Lenin! You Bastards!"

Budapest

North Hungary: Wind Farm

Rural North Hungary

Buda: Royal Palace

Buda: Castle at Night

Hosok Tere Monument (1896) Celebrates 896 Magyar conquest of Carparthian Basin

Hosok Tere detail

Christmas Market

Dog distrusts steel cow

Hungarian History Museum

Bronze age gold

Ancient gold

Yet another distorted skull

Stalin

St Stephen's Basilica (19th c.)

St Stephen's Basilica Interior

Soviet WWII Memorial

1956 Memorial

Hungarian Parliament

Parliament Interior

St Stephen's Crown + Royal Insignia Kept in Parliament, for Land-Rule.

Parliament Interior

Buda: Castle Hill

The Mighty Danube Parliament on the right.

Buda: Matthias Church

St Stephen

Castle ramparts, re-imagined.

"Terror House" Museum

Snow delays at Budapest station

Hungary: 12 miles S. of Budapest

Hungary: 75 miles S. of Budapest

Balkans