Budapest

Budapest
Originally uploaded by blueolive.

This is a photo taken with me standing beside it. Thanks to Ps camera I can share this view of a the Queen of the Danub (Budapest) This photo is tken from the Buda side of the city, looking over to the Pest side. I am falling asleep as i write this from our akward little hostel. After having arrived, humbled by illiteracy we were releaved to climb the suspiciously unclean steps to find a lovely well kept hostel awaiting us. Only to discover there were no beds awaiting us. Over booked. In the end it worked out, with another hostel. expect the worst is a good rule of thumb. I am exhausted and only have one more day in this city, so I will leave you with this: I wish you were here. I think you would love to see these grey clouds tip the light so that all the damp tree trunks and plaster or stone walls seem to drink in a diffused light and glow from with in. We would stand one one of the five historic bridges and share the bredth of this blue river --more brown, until seen at dusk, when indeed it is blue. We could marvel at the skyline of spires and dombs, at the layers of colours hidden in th efog that veils the roling hills that house the inhabitents of the city.
It is rainy and humid. It feels like Bacelona in the fall-- the humid smell of dusty sidewalk just starting to rise and beccon to the comming spring, the big rain drops...The art is everywhere, the history is ...evoked by the street names where the students began the uprising that caused the revolution in '56, or the story of the bishop who forced cathol*cism on the hungarisns--he was launched off Castle Hill in Buda, in a barrel that had spikes in it, precisely for forcing this religion on the masses. i am falling asleep... always a good sign.

more later
with love from the wanderer...