More pages from the Budapest travel journal. Today begins with that most delightful of Budapest experiences. The thermal baths. There are many throughout the city. We started with Szechenyi Furdo. We had such a good time there we went back instead of trying another facility. We'll go to a different public bath on our next trip. Maybe.
Well that does it for Part II. Tomorrow I will finish up with the the last of my pages.
Meanwhile as I drift off to sleep tonight I will make my way to the M1 tram and experience the public baths in winter. Steam rising off the pools. A cool dark starry night overhead. Immersed in a cocoon of warm water.
I've been reading 'Heddy & Me' by Susan Vega, born (1943) and raised in Budapest, now settled with her family in Australia. Wonderful frightening reading about the destruction of a country.
Great things have obviously happened since then as your journal shows a fabulously beautiful city.
Those baths were the only way that people during the war could get clean.
Posted by: Chrissy | 11/08/2011 at 02:42 AM
What attracted you to Budapest? It's not a locale that comes to mind at first. Is there a family/roots connection? I can't wait to hear where you two will end up together next time. In the meanwhile, I am so enjoying this privileged peek into your journal. I know what is attracting ME to Budapest!
Posted by: Leslie J. Moran | 11/08/2011 at 08:30 AM
Love the journal! Wish I had a fabulous journal-making sister to supply me with such a journal to start with, you lucky duck! Love what you've done with it! What fun.
Posted by: Chelsy | 11/08/2011 at 12:32 PM
Hungary is a country I know very little about...although I've read extensively about WW II, nothing took in Hungary. I'll pick up the book mentioned by Chrissy, sounds good.
The journal is great...I know it transports you back to the sights, sounds, smells, of a beautiful city.
Posted by: Joan | 11/08/2011 at 09:05 PM
Please let Joan know that I made a mistake about the book. It's author is Susan Varga (must have been thinking of Suzanne Vega the singer). Sorry.
Posted by: Chrissy | 11/10/2011 at 03:16 PM