In praise of artifice

I’ve just had to add another category to this blog – ‘Art’- in order to have somewhere to lodge this.  ‘Random observation’ somehow doesn’t carry enough gravitas. I couldn’t quite bring myself to change ‘observation’ to a sort of meta-category and add ‘cultural’, ‘social’ or (worst of all) ‘philosophical’ alongside ‘random’. I mention this partly […]

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Absolutely Buda’d part 6 – reinventing ravens

Fri 30th May view all the photos National Historical Museum I know where I’m going now – which metro, tram etc…or so I think, until I try and take a short cut up to the castle again (in search of some things I missed yesterday) and hit two dead-ends in quick succession. Doubling back for […]

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Absolutely Buda’d part 4 – up the hill

Thurs 29/5/08 view all the photos Castle Hill, museums and more…   Successfully negotiate public transport back from Statue Park, poking my head into Hotel Gellért in passing. There’s some lovely 30s stained glass decorating the main staircase, a series of illustrations of a folk-tale involving a magic deer. At this point the camera battery […]

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