Thursday, August 24
Danube Bend: Szentendre, Esztergom
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| Szentendre, Hungary |
In the morning Yoyi started to feel under the weather. She was a trooper. We went to our regular little bakery for our breakfast of breads and coffee, and then took it easy for several hours, going back to the city park and looking at the so-called castle -- mainly facades that depict various historical periods. But she didn't feel any better for the rest.
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| Marzipan "artwork" |
While Yoyi packed our luggage, I took the tram to a car rental office where I had reserved a car. I drove back to the AirBnB, picked her up, and we left Budapest. We drove around the Danube Bend through some of the small towns on the outskirts of Budapest. They were so beautiful!
In Szentendre we stopped at the marzipan museum. Sculptures of Michael Jackson, Princess Di and 101 Dalmatians, are all made of marzipan. It is so incredible and such a work of art as well as considerable works of kitsch.
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A caravan in the eye of a needle,
as seen through a microscope |
In the same town we stopped at the miniature museum. Here are works of art carved into the head of a needle, a grain of rice, an apple seed and such things. You have to look at them through a microscope. l'm not sure how this is even possible. I read that the artist needs such a steady hand that even his heartbeat disrupts his steadiness, so he makes lines in between his heart beats. Can you believe it?
We drove through Visegrad, but didn't have enough time to visit the castle on top of the hill. Oh well.
We slept overnight in Tat, a REALLY little town, in a beautiful AirBnB. Nobody in the town speaks anything but Hungarian -- other than the AirBnB proprietress. Finding the building was challenging, since we couldn't ask directions very easily. After we settled in, I went to the grocery to get fixings for sandwiches for dinner; even the labels on cheeses, cold cuts, etc. are only in Hungarian. Thank you Google Translate.
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