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| Budapest |
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| The view of Buda |
Buda on the left and Pest on the right. |
St Mathias Church |
Statue of St Stephen, Hungary's first King. |
Halasbasztya, The Fishermans Lookout. |
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| The Crown of St Stephen |
Heroes Square |
The Statues of Arpad and the 6 other chieftans who came into Hungary. |
The 14 heroes of Hungary starting with Arpad. |
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| The Milenium Wheel, a huge sand timer gets turned around on 31st Dec. |
The Agricultural Museum |
Vajdahunyad Castle |
The great cafe and restautant in the middle of the lake in Varosliget (City Park). |
| Kalocsa to Ocseny |
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| Taking off at Kalocsa. |
Climbing Out. |
Overhead pass |
On the finals at Ocseny. |
Every airfield has an Antanov |
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| Taking off for the flight back |
Heading off, hope there's enough time. |
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| The Danube Picnic |
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| Settling down for a relaxing evening. |
The Gulyas is coming on. |
The size of some of the boats that come up the Danube. |
Watching the sunset. |
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| Dunaujvaros to Kalocsa |
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| Beautiful grassy strip great for a take off. |
Climbing out. |
A fly over before heading off. |
Landing at Kalocsa. |
Another flight, well why not? |
| The Restaurant at Kiskoros |
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| Early Morning Mist Flying |
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| Unpackingthe car. |
The mist at the edge os the runway. |
Mist as far as the eye can see. |
Where ever you look. |
Mark climbing out. |
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| You can never get too much of a view like this. |
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| As the sun gets higher the mist start to receed and disappears. |
Looking up at Mark |
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| The view of Kalocsa as we fly around it. |
Flying towards the Danube. |
The Danube winds its way south. |
I know it doesn't look it but here Mark is flying about 2,000ft above the River Danube. |
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| Flying above the airfield. |
Mist almost gone. |
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| Flying Close. |
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Kalocsa main street. |
| Living in Hungary |
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A traditional Hungarian home. |
A typical village, flowers everywhere and no litter. |
Another pretty village. |
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| As september goes suddenly the chillies are getting ripe and you see them every where. |
A closer look |
Just to prove that red and green chillies are the same thing. Red are ripe. |
Hanging the chillies out to dry in the sun . |
The other Hungarian passion is cakes. Every village has a Cukraszda (cake shop) |
| The Lake Balaton Area |
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| The Fesztetics Castle at Kesztehely. |
One of the many highly ornate rooms. |
The library contains over 80,000 books. |
The entrance to Kisfaludy House Restaurant overlooking Lake Balaton. |
Our table with a view. |
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| The camera can not take it all in. |
Traditional Hungarian music supplied by the house band. |
The flooded caves under the village of Tapolca. |
Mark and Jane rowing into the darkness. |
The restaurant where we had our evening meal. |
| The Eszterhazy Castle |
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| The imposing entrance. |
The newly renovated side. The gardens are soon to be replanted. |
The un-renovated side. |
This is what the room used to look like before the Russians came. |
The newly renovated room but it will never be the same. |
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| So highly decorated it takes your breath away. |
This picture on the ceiling of the music room. |
The music room ready for a concert. |
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| Around The Hills Of Eger |
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| Our hotel room. |
The bathroom. |
Heading out to Eger. |
Climbing out. |
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| Eger underneath. |
Eger with the hills and vinyards. |
Getting closer. |
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| The airfield above Eger but not enough room to take off. |
Back to the airfield in time. |
Only a few feet to go. |
Landed. |
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| Esztergorm |
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| Well, yet another Antanov. |
A look at the dash. |
One of the many microlights that we saw around. |
Esztergorm in the distance. |
Getting closer to Esztergorm. |
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| A close up of the Basilica. |
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Another sunset over the Danube. |
The Basilica at night. |
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| Budaors Airfield |
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| A warm welcome as you arrive. No one breaks the rules here. |
Guess what ? |
A Russian version of the DC3 brought here to fix. |
A fully flying version. |
Inside the hangar, and they say ther are no well off people in Hungary. |
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| An aircraft I've never seen before. Answers on a postcard please. |
An aerobatic Yak. |
The Red Bull Air Race, Breitling sponsord plane. I thought I got a better photo, sorry. |
This Antanov is actually owned by a priest who does weddings and sermons in the air. Whatever next. |
Apart from Antanovs most airfields have a MIG.
I wonder if I can get one for my garden? |
| Our Swimming trip to Heviz |
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| This is our transport to go swimming. |
Flying over the Danube. |
Coming in to land at Balaton Airfield, an Antanov waits. |
The Lake at Heviz is fed by undergroundsprings and is 30 degreees all year round and very, very deep. |
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| You swim with all the plant life of the lake. |
A Citation jet parks next to us. |
The Antanov we saw earlier |
As we leave we see another Antanov needing TLC. |
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