I Love You Trulli
Here’s my new real estate acquisition in Italy. Well, not really. It was vacant. It looked like it needed to be reclaimed and loved. But, as much as I think it would be a fun project, I knew it wouldn’t … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Budapest, Montenegro, Italy 2008
The Holy Crown of St. Stephen
When Stephen became King of Hungary on Christmas Day in the year 1000, Pope Sylvester II made him the gift of a crown. Stephen had resolved to raise Hungary to the status of a Christian kingdom, placing it on an … Continue reading →
Translation Please
I don’t speak Hungarian. But, I’d love to know what this song is about, and what the young lady is telling the audience in the end. Any one out there who can translate?
Continue reading →Mt. Lovcen Dreamin’
It was an especially long and tiring day at work today. I stopped and sat down only one or two times in 13 hours. At one point I passed through the international travel aisle and this book caught my eye: … Continue reading →
The Giant on Mount Lovcen
At a certain angle, the two rounded peaks of Mount Lovcen look like a set of brawny shoulders without a head. This wasn’t lost on Petar II Petrovic Njegos. Njegos is arguably Montenegros most treasured and revered national hero. Before … Continue reading →
They Call Them “Modern” Roads – ROADS
The PhotoHunt theme this week is ROAD. So my photo is that of a “modern” road in Montenegro. There are four designations of road in this beautiful country. International Roads have a number assigned to them — on the map. … Continue reading →
Durmitor National Park – WILD
The PhotoHunt Theme is WILD. So, I’ll show you the wild horses of Durmitor National Park. One day, we decided to leave sea level Kotor and head for one of Montenegro’s highest points. After all, we were in Montenegro for … Continue reading →
Montenegro’s Ethnographic Museum – STRINGS
This week’s PhotoHunt theme is STRINGS. When is it just strings and when is it thread? When does the thread become a work of art? Loom on exhibit in the Ethnographic Museum in Cetinje, Montenegro Cetinje is the historical and … Continue reading →
On to Montenegro – BEAUTIFUL
It is time to leave the rest of Budapest for you to discover for yourself. If I don’t move on to Montenegro, I’ll still be writing these travel entries six months from now. Saturday means another PhotoHunt assignment. This week … Continue reading →
Festival Food in Budapest
Tomorrow’s post takes us out of Budapest and on our way to Montenegro. So what better way to leave this great city behind than with images of its festival food? We were lucky enough to be in Budapest on June … Continue reading →