Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this Scythian torque. Displayed in the the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest.
Budapest 1944
Howard Altmann
For my father
In the unswayable darkness a tree shivers at night. By the sweeping light of noon an old grip holds. At the shaking of the spirit a half moon touches ground.
Hand over hand, body over body wisdom never makes it home. Page after page, book after book bruised apples make the sauce. Mouth to water, glass to table truths get put down.
The ocean knows the sun goes only so deep. The melting of the snow freezes memory to that place. And a generation passing down colours colours the icicles of spring.
In memory of Elie Wiesel
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits is an odd one, perhaps.
It's an interior shot of my dorm room in the 2Night Hostel, in Budapest (March, 2011). Only me in occupation, for the princely sum of £6.90 per night. The orange coat is still going strong but the shoulder bag has been replaced, similarly the red suitcase, and camera. Hanging up, on the bedside screen: my dinner suit. I went to the ballet (Christmas Carol) and the opera (Norma) during my one week stay, in the city. The dinner suit was replaced a couple of years ago.
On my last night in the city (after the opera), I was too buzzed for bed, so I went to the Gresham Palace Hotel and had a Manhattan in the cocktail bar, ate complimentary hors d'oeuvres, & listened to my audio book, before heading back to the hostel.
The Manhattan was £14 (including a good tip), and was worth every penny.
Today's photo with the most hits: Imre Nagy statue, Budapest.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: Parisi Udvar, Budapest.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: Kossuth Ter, Budapest. lo
Today's photo with the most hits: a courtyard in Buda castle.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the House of Terror, Budapest.
House of Terror is a museum located at Andrássy út 60 in Budapest, Hungary. It contains exhibits related to the Fascist and Communist regimes in 20th-century Hungary and is also a memorial to the victims of these regimes, including those detained, interrogated, tortured or killed in the building
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the Dohany Synagogue Willow, Budapest. The leaves are embossed with the names Jewish worshippers murdered in the Holocaust.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this memorial plaque in the Holocaust Museum (synagogue), Budapest. The glass chairs represent the absence of Jewish congregants - murdered by the Nazis.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the interior of the synagogue - part of the Holocaust Museum - in Budapest.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this sculpture in the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: another from Buda Castle. In this shot war damage from 1945 is clearly evident. Possibly the impact from RPG.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: Trinity Square, Buda Castle, Budapest, Hungary.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this very Ottoman looking fountain in the castle of Buda, Budapest, Hungary.