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Vienna - secession interior and café life

Ladies in Café Schwarzenberg in downtown Vienna. Café Schwarzenberg is a beautiful Secessionist café. They have an old Rowenta coffee machine inside (not in use though), huge marble walls and secessionist tile ceiling.

But their coffee is horrible. The cappuccino comes not with milk foam but with whipped cream and it tastes awful. The cakes are [...]

Circus

Looks like a Ukrainian circus show in Vienna.

Pogácsa

Close

An old airplane captured yesterday evening passing few meters above a country house near Budapest. 
 

Red Bull Air Race Budapest 2009

I ran into the qualification trainings yesterday on my way back home from work. I stopped to take some pictures and I captured the last turns of the pilots. 

Parliament on the left, castle in the background and increased security after the disastrous events on the national day celebrations 3(?) years ago, then several people died [...]

Wild flowers

Yes, just wild flowers. 
 

A ride on Andrássy avenue

Andrássy is by far the most beautiful large avenue of Budapest. Every visitor should walk through it from one end to another. You’ll find nice shops, Cafés, restaurants (don’t miss Klassz!) but above all, architecture.

Country life

Ladder in the cellar.

Spices and dried herbs hanging on the roof.

Pálinka

Waiting to be filled with Gönci Barack Pálinka.

Budapest former ghetto

Ironically this more and more bohemian neighborhood still has elements of its not so glorious past.

Prague 2008 vol 2

Rooftop of Prague’s cool contemporary museum.

The wonder.

The museum.

Prague’s secessionist face. It’s a pub actually in the basement. Quite a tourist trap if you ask me but still, I went back there.

Prague 2008

Early morning in Prague.

It’s a bit moody in the morning fog, taken from the famous Charles bridge.

October sunbath.

Pub crawling Hungarian tourist in Prague.

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Stylish poverty

Homeless man at Budapest’s Gloria Jean’s Coffee house. Now the coffeehouse’s gone, poverty remains.

Winter retrospect

Candles.

Andrássy út in Xmas lights.

Buda hills at sunset from the Danube

April still life at Kopaszi-gát.

Tenderness.

Regatta at Kopaszi-gát

Strange boats.

The old factory buildings provide an excellent contrast to the lively garden which is Kopaszi-gát today and its XIst century buildings. I can only hope that both will remain intact for a long time.

Rooftop shadow study

This picture was taken at the Kopaszi-gát in south Buda. After a tricky privatisation, sale to a Portuguese investor and a rental contract this area’s now promenade through a nice garden n a perfectly thin, long peninsula filled with abandoned new buildings, like this one on the photo.

Pipes

The secret door

The entrance of the secret passage.

Hasn’t been opened for a long time.

Cherry blossom