Hospital in the Rocks

After a morning of staying at home and reading, we had lunch and walked to the Buda side of Budapest. We went up a hill to the hospital in the rocks. We had to wait about half an hour before the guided tour started. The guide took us through 1km of tunnels through caves. There were little rooms with all original tools and very realistic looking wax figures. There were fake bandages and fake blood on the wax figures, and some of them were missing fingers or were in wheelchairs. The hospital only had one operating room, and it was set up to look like the doctors were operating on someone. There were tools from when the hospital was still in use, machines, different medicines and fake bloody tissues. On the walls of the hallway, there were other tools on display including a stomach and intestine stapler, scissors and needles.

In the 1800s, the caves were used as cellars, but in 1939, they decided to transform them into a hospital. The hospital was used during World War ll and after being closed for 10 years, it was reopened again after the revolution. It was first built for a capacity of 60 patients, but was expanded to a capacity of 200. Because of the number of injured people, there were 665 patients at some points. We were told there would have been people everywhere, including the floor. There was only one operating room, but there would have been so many injured men who needed to be operated on.

Later, the hospital was turned into a nuclear bunker. It had gas filtration systems and air tight doors. It was never attacked, so no one knows whether or not it would have actually survived. The hospital was not very far underground, and the air filtration system probably wasn’t the best, so it’s a good thing that it never had to be used. Sadly, we weren’t allowed to take photos in the hospital.

After the hospital, we went to Fisherman’s Bastion, a look out tower from the 19th century. There was a panoramic view of Budapest. I could see all the bridges, the Parliament buildings and some churches too. It was really cool to be able to see everything.

We also got some pictures of Buda castle.

Sophie
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Ce matin, pendant que mes parents ont allé à un café, moi et Neve ont resté à la maison. J’ai cuisiné des biscuits, on a lu, et j’ai fini ma 29ème livre dans 55 jours. J’ai cuisiné un peu en Crotia, mais pas beaucoup. C’est difficile, parce qu’il n’y a pas de bicarbonate de soude ou des épices ici. On a aussi cherché pour du beurre d’arachide organique, mais on ne pouvait pas le trouver. On a cherché pour la beurre d’arachide
dans chaque magasin qu’on a vu. J’ai trouvé une recette pour des biscuits avec juste 3 ingrédients: le nutella, des oeufs et du farine.

Mes parents ont aussi allé à un autre magasin et trouvé du beurre d’arachide, ils ont pris le dernier contenant. On va retourner au magasin plus tard pour acheter plus pour faire EBC.

Une chose qu’il y a beaucoup de ici, c’est le miel. Il y a un marché chaque fin-de-semaine très proche de notre maison et il y a beaucoup de différents types de miel. Hungary est connu pour leur miel.

Dans l’après-midi, on a visité un hôpital dans sous-terrain, dans des vieux caves. C’était utilisé pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale et durant la révolution en 1956. On a fait un tour guidé, il y avait beaucoup de petits salles avec les outils qui étaient utilisés quand l’hôpital était ouvert. Il y a aussi des personnes faits de cire qui ressemblent comme des vraies personnes. On n’avait pas le droit de prendre des photos dans l’hôpital pour aider à le préserver.

L’hôpital était aussi un bunker nucléaire, mais il n’était jamais attaquer.Read more