In yesterday’s post I mentioned that there was enough interesting to see in order not to waste time with bad (instant) coffee. The entrance door to the business lounge was one of them – perfect secessionist style, and it is at least noteworthy that this door handle in seemingly original condition is still in place.
Unfortunately the coffee shop in the north wing of Keleti train station was closed and my kaffeine level dropped to an all day low. But the place was too interesting to spend time with bad coffee (and good coffee seemed not to be at hand).
This church is one of the most important places in Hungary’s history, is in 1848 the Hungarian Declaration of Independence was made just here. That it is a protestant church in the mainly roman catholic Hungary has its reason in the proximity to the then Osman empire: The counter-reformation could not reach this place due…
The store with the hard-to-pronounce name (at least for non-Hungarians) seems to be part of a large chain of shopping malls. When it comes to attract the bargain hunting crowd, the inner part of the art nouveau entrance is just a suitable area for a big banner shouting ‘Discount’.
The many images of graffiti I made in Debrecen finally found their way into a folio in pdf-format, Debrecen Tagged, now available in the books section. Again my thanks go to Eric Jeschke from redskiesatnight.com for his latex framework, published under GPL and forming the basis for my work.
One of the most beautiful Art-Deco buildings I’ve ever been in.
With best regards to Carl Weese, whose underpass work is still unsurpassed. My reaction was too slow to dial in the right shutter speed for a blurred vehicle (again © Carl Weese, here), but I wanted to get that pale yellow car plus the lady with the pale yellow coat in the frame. I am…
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