Budapest Walking Tour and Parliament

The walking tour here was one of the best of the MANY we've been on! We felt stupid to Budapest is in fact 2 places... Buda being the rich area out of the touristy center, and pest being the more working class and commonly visited part.

Pic 3 is Mr Beans Teddy bear as a statue 😂 I was proud to recognise him when she asked if anyone knew who it was 🙈😂

The shoes by the river are symbols of all the Jewish lives lost, taken to places (Auschwitz being the main one) to be killed. A 'popular' way to kill them was to have 2 people put together and stood in front of the river, so one bullet would kill the first and their weight would drown the one at the back as the bullet actually wouldn't go through 2 people. Just absolutely awful. The shoes are of all sizes from babies to mens, heels, boots etc to represent the entire communities lost 😭

There are a LOT of pictures of the parliamentary building as there was just so much of it and it was so impressive.

It was actually a competition between architects to design that building, but the second place of the competition they liked so much they built it opposite and its the one 4 pics from the end.Read more