The view from Julie and Peter's living room in Buda. They live in a marvellous house which you reach by taking the tram to Huvosvolgy at the end of the line and you drive several kms to their beautifully situated house overlooking Hidegkut. We know them through our Forster friends Denny and Rob and they are bridge players at the club we have been playing at these last months here.
In contrast, this is inner city living. Mishi's studio is in Magyar utca just off Astoria. Mishi is the talented designer son of Eszter whom I met through my friend Kati in Canberra. Mishi has just won a place in the prestigious London Technical Institute of Design.
The building is run down chic and the lovely little terrace at the top is reached by a ladder. The studio room is great with glass ceiling which does make it a little hot in summer and cold in winter but Mishi is young and the place is cheap to rent and very hip.
Below is where you climb up on the roof terrace.
This is the main public library in Budapest, the Szabo Ervin Konyvtar just off Kalvin ter. It is housed in the Wenkheim Palace and has been there since 1931 but was refurbished, in the usual stylish fashion this country does so well, in 2000.
The cafe in the foyer downstairs.
The beautiful spiral staircase. The library is on 6 floors.
The modernised parts and aspects of the library. There is a very decent English language collection.
This innocuous looking building, the Feszke Muveszklub in Kertesz utca on the corner of the former Jewish ghetto houses THE most exotic Cuban restaurant-cum-club in the city.
The colours and the decor are just fabulous. I tell you, this is a city that knows how to party.
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