Hungarians like their statues large and exceedingly fierce. Here’s Árpád, founder of the Hungarian nation, leading the charge for the seven Magyar chieftains, at the Millennium Monument.
Working the crowd.
American dollars.
Our arrival in Budapest coincided with record flooding. Southern Germany was underwater, Prague was scrambling to erect flood barriers and the sullen Danube was lapping at the walls of Pest. Here it is on a sultry June evening, before it swallowed the lower embankment. Budapest is a city divided. For most of Hungary’s history, it …
Innsbruck is located in (pause for excruciating pun) the Inn valley. Brücke means “bridge” in German – hence Innsbruck, “the bridge over the Inn.” That would be the muddy, roaring river depicted here. It’s a thoroughly Austrian city, iced in pink and white, full of trundling trams, thick cigarette smoke and pensioners on a summer …
