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  1. A leafy suburb in Budapest
    Sep 28, 2026 · original
    The Garden City and Garden Suburb movements flourished in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first couple of decades of the twentieth. I was brought up in London’s Hampstead Garden Suburb, whose construction began in 1907. My family home was built in 1908. I have written about the Suburb in my book “GOLDERS GREEN & HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB: VISIONS OF ARCADIA”. Because of my interest in garden suburbs, I decided to visit the Wekerle Estate in Budapest . The leafy Wekerle Estate – Wekelertelep in Hungarian – was named after a former Prime Minister Sándor Wekerle, who who favoured the idea of building comfortable, human-scale housing estates for government employees. The estate was inspired by the ideas of Ebenezer Howard, the ‘father’ of the idea of Garden Cities. Construction of the Wekelertelep began in 1908 and continued until 1925. The estate is built around a large cen
  2. It is amazing whom you meet by chance on a train in Hungary
    Sep 27, 2026 · original
    Today, 24 September 2026, we visited the picturesque town of Szentendre, which is about 10 miles north of Budapest. While returning from there by train we met a couple, and began chatting with them … Before telling you about our brief encounter, here is some essential background information. The family of my wife’s mother hail from Mandvi in Kachchh (Kutch), which is now a part of the Indian state of Gujarat. We often visit Kachchh, especially Mandvi and the larger town Bhuj, which is the capital of Kachchh. I have written much about these places in my latest book “Road To Heaven – A passage through India”. The couple we began chatting with on the train looked Indian and smiled at us, which was why we began speaking with them. They have lived in Sweden for many decades, and were visiting Budapest with a Swedish tour group. We soon discovered that they spoke Gujarati, one of the languages
  3. A synagogue in Budapest then and now
    Sep 26, 2026 · original
    The Dohány Street Synagogue in central Budapest is now a major tourist attraction, visited by swarms of visitors. It is the largest surviving synagogue in Europe. Highly restored and well-maintained, it is a glorious site, but also a memorial to the awful fate of Hungarian Jewish people in the last year’s of WW2. The first time I visited this place of worship was in the early 1980s, when Hungary was still part of the Soviet bloc, under control of the Russians. Unlike today, 2026, then there was no queue of tourists waiting to see the building. To enter it back on the early 1980s, one simply went to the watchman and asked permission see the interior . On the afternoon when I went there, I was not the only person in the watchman’s small office. There was a German and an two Americans – a couple. The watchman asked us where we were from. The German answered first, and the caretaker said: “C
  4. Trieste and the fragrant odour of sauerkraut
    Sep 25, 2026 · original
    The first time I visited Trieste was by car in the 1980s. As I wanted to avoid having to drive within the city and because I was worried about parking there, I stopped on a village near Trieste. My idea was to leave the car there, and enter the city by local bus. I parked close to a restaurant. As soon as I opened the car door, the odour of sauerkraut, a foodstuff that I adore, assailed my nose. Immediately, I entered the trattoria, and ordered a dish with sauerkraut – a food preparation I had not expected to find in Italy. Well, I should not have been surprised. The part of Italy containing Trieste is not only close to sauerkraut eating areas such as Austria and the former Yugoslavia, but was also once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today, 21 September 2026, I was back in Trieste. At lunch, I ordered a “Triestino”. It was a plate with cooked ham, potatoes fried with onions, raw ho
  5. A small town in Italy near Slovenia
    Sep 24, 2026 · original
    For less than the price of a single journey ticket on one of the water buses in Venice, you can buy a return ticket for the 30 minute ferry ride between Trieste and its southern neighbour Muggia – a little port on the northern fringe of the Istrian peninsula. This narrow strip of Italian territory is very near the Slovenian border. Approaching Muggia by sea, the place’s modern surroundings, which is all that the arriving traveller can see from the boat, look barely inviting. However, a short walk brings one into the maze of attractive streets and piazzas of the old town. The cathedral – ‘duomo’ – is in the heart of the old town. It was constructed while Muggia was part of the Patriarchy of Aquilea. Consecrated in 1263, it is a spacious church decorated with freckles, some of which look as if they have been mutilated by a sharp object. We visited this church and two other charming smaller
  6. Exodus from Yugoslavia … for the lucky ones.
    Sep 23, 2026 · original
    The Lutheran church in central Trieste was built in an austere late gothic style between 1871 and 1874. Outside its west end, in Largo Odorico Panfili, there is a tall cylinder surrounded by transparent glass or plastic. Within the cylinder there are models of people. This artwork is a monument to a tragic era. The monument called “Momentum”, designed by Jasmine Iannì and Giuseppe Sabatino, is dedicated to the memory of those Italians who fled from areas that had been Italian but had been incorporated into Tito’s Yugoslavia at the e d of WW2. These territories included Istria, Fiume, Dalmatia, and Zadar . Well, I knew about these refugees, but not about something else commemorated by the monument. What I had not known about were the ‘foibe’ killings – massacres of Italians living in the formerly Italian territories that became part of Yugoslavia. These were, it is said, carrued out by Ti
  7. You should drink the water from taps in Venice
    Sep 22, 2026 · original
    In Venice and other towns in Italy, we have been told that for hygienic reasons , customers cannot be served acqua dell rubinetto – tap water. Seen im Venice Yet, at bars in those same towns, tap water can be served with a cup of coffee. And on the water buses in Venice, the city council has put up signs – see my photo – encouraging people to DRINK TAP WATER. IF tap water was to be served in restaurants, the greedy owners might be deprived of 1 to 4 Euros per bottle of the only kind of water they are prepared to serve.
  8. Six decades at the same bar in Venezia (Venice)
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
    From early childhood until I was 17 years old I visited Venice with my parents every year for 7 to 10 days. We used to stay at the Pensione La Calcina on the Zattere shore of the Giudecca Canal – the waterway along which liners, car ferries, and freighters sailed through Venice on their journeys between the Adriatic and the port of Marghera. It was at La Calcina that John Ruskin stayed in 1877. Back in the 1960s, the coffee served with breakfast at this pensione was almost undrinkable. I hope that now the place has been considerably upgraded, it serves better coffee. Because of the terrible coffee, the first thing we did after breakfast every day was to walk from La Calcina to the Academia Bridge, cross it, and then after passing two piazzas, reached Bar il Redentore. Bar Redentore The bar occupies a corner plot next to a bridge crossing a narrow canal. There, my parents ordered espresso
  9. The magic of Venice?
    Sep 20, 2026 · original
    City of cheats Awash with sewage and vice That is Venezia
  10. Locks of love unlocked a distant memory
    Sep 19, 2026 · original
    About 20 years ago, I visited the waterfalls at Sivasamudra in Karnataka state, India. At one viewpoint, there was a fence to which padlocks had been attached. The fence was special; it surrounded the tomb of a Muslim saint. I had never seen anything like this before. I asked our well-educated driver, Rahim, about the locks. His explanation was that people who had a wish that they wanted fulfilled, attached a lock to the fence and discarded the key. Their belief was that when their wish was granted, God would unlock the padlock. Some years after visiting Sivasamudram, I began noticing bridges in Europe to which padlocks had been attached, often in great numbers. Each lock usually bore a name that had been written on it. These locks are known as ‘love locks’. Their supposed origin was at a bridge in Vrnjačka Banja in Serbia in 1914 (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_lock ). Loving c

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