13. Jun’ 11, 14. Jun’ 11
Ob treh popoldne sem prestopil madžarsko mejo, na starem mejnem prehodu. V duhu avanture sem hitro izklopil GPS in se prepustil teku ceste.
Debelo uro je trajalo, da sem našel nazaj na pot proti Budimpešti. Končno sem po neštetih zastojih in semaforjih majhnih madžarskih mest zapeljal na nek hrib.. In pod menoj se je odprl pogled na donavin nežen zavoj, ki ga kot čuječa mati objema biser Donave: Budimpešta.
Po umirjenem večeru tavanja po Budimpešti sem naslednji dan začel z vzponim na trdnjavo v Budi. Hitro sem ugotovil, da si mesto svoj biserni naziv tudi dejansko zasluži – čisto in povsem urejeno je bilo vse, od najcenejših beznic do javnih sanitarij.
Z vrha trdnjave, kjer stoji tudi lokalna različica kipa svobode, je razgled na mesto prav veličasten. Donavo, ki izginja za zavojem, premosti prekrasen Verižni most, ki povezuje staro palačo na enen bregu in neznansko stavbo madžarskega parlamenta na drugi, menda tretjo največjo na svetu. Ko je padla noč, so prižgali luči ob reki… In svet je bil pod skoraj polno luno, v zanimivi družbi, videti dober.
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It was three in the afternoon when I crossed the Hungarian border, at the old crossing. In a spirit of adventure I turned of my GPS and went with the flow of the road…
It took me a long hour to get back to the road I should have been taking, and another three of driving through endless country villages ’till I crested a hill and before me the Pearl of the Daunabe revealed itself, gently hugging the curve of the river: I had arrived in Budapest.
After a calm evening of wandering the winding streets of Budapest, I started the next day with a trip to the hilltop fortress in Buda, home to the local version of the Statue of Liberty, and also to one of the greatest views in the city: the marvelous Chain bridge connecting the large palace on one bank, and the massive House of Parliament (the third largest in the world) on the other.
When night fell, they lit the river-side lights, and under the nearly-full moon, in some interesting new company, the world seemed pretty good indeed.
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