Friday, November 30, 2007

This is the entrance to one of the more famous restaurants in Budapest - it is called the Százéves which literally means that it is called the Hundred Years Restaurant. At one point it was in fact one hundred years old and now has actually surpassed the date of its foundation and so has a name that is no longer as reflective of its history as it once was.

None the less the last time I visited in 2005 it was still a great place to have a meal - although the prices had shot through the roof and it had of course become far more touristy than it used to be back in the 1970s.
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Moszkva Tér

This is Moszkva Tér one of the central hubs of communication in Budapest Hungary. It is located on the Buda side of the Danube and contains the main terminal for trains heading to the east of Hungary and internationally. It also has both bus and subway lines connecting to it and a great little shopping area both in the underground area and of course around the entire square.

It has changed considerably over the years but during former times it is the location of most of the troop trains that came in from Russia and parts east - it was also the place from whence people were taken to the concentration camps in Poland and the Ukraine during the Second World War
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