Last Thursday afternoon was rooftop hangs at David and Bea’s (beh-oh) apartment, which is an old bank converted into an apartment. I met them at a movie night the week before, and they are cool peeps with a rad place, and have nice friends.

Anyways, here’s the view form the roof top:

For context, this is right in the middle of Budapest. (you can click on any of the photos on this blog and they will open up in a ‘viewing gallery’). Okay, so there may in fact be castles in some of these images, but probably just churches or libraries. Honestly, your guess is as good as mine. The picture of the telephone is a ‘still working’ intercom system to buzz people in from the from door. We are about 5/6 levels up and there is no working elevator. Step step step step step step.

Királytás (the title of this post) is a clever portmanteau David came up with to describe the rooftop lookout. Király - slang for ‘awesome’ (but actually means ‘king’) + Kilátás - lookout (ki- out, látás- seeing)… Királytás - awesome lookout. Sorry to Hungarian readers if I spelt this horribly wrong, I’ve only heard this being using in conversation!

Photographer’s note: You would think a wide would be the go, but honestly a tele would have been just as useful, mainly to compress the perspective distance between all the buildings into a flatter plane. The last shot is a punched in digital zoom from my iPhone that really shows this. Will bring the 24-70 next time?

Bea és David own a boutique backpack (hátizsák hah-tiz-sh-ah-k) company called HELIX. They would totally go off in Australia I reckon:

@helixgoods
https://helixgoods.com

More Belváros

Below are some photos from walking around belvárso (downtown). Again, this is a very nice part of town, but still just ‘buildings’. Even with my 16mm wide angle lens I struggled to fit everything in. Will have to do more comps? Also, I feel I should show places that a less grand and on cloudy days. But honestly… it’s kinda gorgeous. I love in the last photo how kids are just casually skating in front of buildings like that.

Yes I know perspective tilt exists in post, but yolo, it’s my blog.

Pano stich with help from Adobe Lightroom. Look, yes I’m going to keep the cloning errors in, because yolo it’s my bolg and well, you all know I Iike cooked things.

Hagyományos Étterem?

Tip: If you go to a country like Hungary and you see a restaurant (étterem) with the main sign saying “Hungarian Food” in English + Helvetica Neau, it’s definitely not going to be ‘magyar ételek’.

THIS is where you will find ‘traditional Hungarian food’ (hagyományos magyar ételek). If you don’t know the language and you can’t read the menu, it’s a good sign. You know this is gonna be my go to for this week ;) As my housemates dad (who is also strangely named Attila…) said when I show him this picture: ‘It may not be the best, but it will be authentic’.

There is also a place at, Rákóczi (Rah-k-or-ts-zi) tér, near where I will be staying next that is legit. I will eat the menű. Stay tuned.

Hungarian Revolution of 1848

On Friday 15th March, I went the celebration of the 1848 Hungarian revolution. In 1848 it was about gaining independence from the Austrian empire, but now it gets weaponized by the far right government for nationalist hype. It was a whole thing, I’ll post about separately. I got to see and hear Orbán in all his swine growling glory.