Budapest doesn’t need to Deck the Halls.
These halls have been continuously decked,
for a very long time.
If beauty is truth,
and truth,
beauty.
Then Budapest is truly beautiful.
As are you!
Merriest Christmas to you from The Holler~
Budapest doesn’t need to Deck the Halls.
These halls have been continuously decked,
for a very long time.
If beauty is truth,
and truth,
beauty.
Then Budapest is truly beautiful.
As are you!
Merriest Christmas to you from The Holler~
Fabulous and beautiful images! Merry Christmas!
Thank you and Merriest Christmas to you Greg~
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And a Merry Christmas back to the holler. Did you see any Roma relatives in Budapest?
I did, and I have photos. Always moves me. Merry Christmas Wally~ <3
Roma haloupki (pigs in the blanket). Enjoy the holiday food.
I make these all the time with beef!!! They are healthy and good! Loved the video~
A Merry Christmas to you too, Cindy. And many thanks for the consistency of beauty in your picures and posts. I holiay vicariously with every one. Truly beautiful.x
Awwww, that makes me happy. Sharing with people like you makes the experience deeper and richer. Merry Christmas~
Simply beautiful, Cindy. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Leslie
Thank you Leslie and to you and yours! <3
Merry Christmas Cindy and very beautiful post 😀
Thank you Irene. I have loved sharing this year with you! <3
And I have enjoyed so very much 🙂
Wow this is gorgeous!
Thanks Antionette. Eastern Europe is gorgeous!
Eine frohe Weihnacht wünsche ich Dir, liebe Cindy, komm gut durch die Zeit, herzlichst von Petra aus der Schorfheide
Frohe Weihnachten zu Ihnen mein Freund und der schönen Schorfheide! <3
Vielen, lieben Dank 🙂
<3 <3
Yes very beautiful.
Merry Christmas my friend~
Merry Christmas to you.
<3
A name well chosen looking at these 🙂
Thank you. The beauty that human’s can create is astounding.
Yes, it can be 🙂
<3
Beautiful place! Merry Christmas, dear!! 🙂
Merry Christmas back to you~
Thank you, dear!! 🙂
<3
And to you, Cindy! Gorgeous photos!
Kiss all the doggies for me! <3
ALL of them? It will take awhile…but will do!
Many, many years ago, I was told that the two places in the world most hospitable to poets were anywhere in Wales and Budapest, Hungary. I know that there is a poem all schoolchildren in Hungary learn by heart…”The Bards of Wales”….composed by Arany in mid nineteenth century, and put to music more recently. I have never been to Wales or Budapest….but I can see from these gorgeous photos that Budapest would indeed be a place very hospitable to poets.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Cindy.
I will google “The Bard of Wales.” Budapest is a magical place that provides powerful hits of beauty and history that would inspire you Cynthia. But, truthfully, you are inspired anywhere you are. I am lucky to know you.
Truly beautiful Cindy.
Awwww, thank you so much and Merry Christmas~
Merry Christmas, Cindy!
Visa versa my friend~ <3
Budapest is one of the most beautiful cities on my opinion. Lucky you to be there before Christmas. I think it is even more beautiful by that holiday. However, home is the sweatiest place of all.
Merry Christmas!
Yes, Budapest at Christmas time was ethereal, but you are right, there is no place like home!
Amazing. Happy Holidays to you and both your human and holler family.
Visa versa to you Colleen and thank you for including the Holler critters! They and I appreciate it!~ <3
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Now i want to pack my suitcase, I could need some vacation. Great pictures, the ceilings are gorgeous. Merry Christmas Cindy to you and yours.
Well, I hope you do pack your bags and go on a vacation. Vacations are good for everything! 😉 Thank you my friend and be well~
Just stunning!!! I love those architecture photos! Merry Christmas Cindy!
Awwww, thank you and so glad you do Laura. I was admiring your photos last night. Always a joy to see~
You’re so welcome. :). And thank you!
Amazing works of art, those decked halls, and oh how fortunate that for hundreds of years, so many eyes have received their glory. Great photos, Cindy. Happy Holidays!
I so look forward to 2016 with you my friend. Can’t wait to see what you will be up too!
I see that you got away from the lobster. Maybe somebody ate him.
My father was in the two cities, Buda and Pest, and said that was the most beautiful part of Europe that he saw on his tour of Europe in the 1930s. Those Hapsburgs knew how to live.
You gave us beautiful pictures, thank you. I don’t know how much of the architecture is old, restored, or new, but I believe that if it is relatively new, as much as possible, duplication of pre-war structures as possible was maintained.
Have a wonderful Christmas.
You are right on all counts. Much is very old. Your father’s tour in the 1930’s would be fascinating to hear about. As I travel through Europe, I often think of my grandfather who has been every place I have been and more. I am just retracing his steps. Merriest of Christmases to you!
And to you too Cindy.
Peace, love and joy for now and the new year
Alison xoxox
Cannot wait to follow you on your adventures around the globe Alison! Do you think we will ever be at the same place at the same time? That would be incredible! Happy and Healthy New Year to you my friend~
Wonderful, wonderful shots, Cindy. I have very happy memories of a train ride from Vienna to Budapest – such a beautiful city. Merry Christmas.
I bet that ride was gorgeous and relaxing. We drove the same route and it was truly lovely. Merry Christmas to you and yours~
Hugs back.
Thanks for sharing this beauty, and for all the wonders you have given us through the year! Merry Christmas to you & yours, and look forward to continuing the bloody journey in 2016. Cheers! 🙂
LOL! damn that auto correct!! for ‘bloody’ read ‘bloggy’ – so sorry about that!! xxx
Cracking up!! Love the bloody journey!! 😉 😉 Once I thanked someone for a post and commented, “Thank you fiend.” So don’t feel bad! 😉 😉 Oh, and in German once I said mean instead of mine, as in “Thank you mean friend!” Laughing more…..Merry Christmas and Happy New Year my friend~ <3
So glad it’s not just me!! 😀😀😀 great that we can laugh about such things – the stuff of life!! ❤️💕✨xxx
Beautiful, Cindy – just like you! Merry christmas and a Happy New Year!
Awwww, so kind and so appreciated! Same to you~ <3
How were all these beautiful sights you’ve been showing us in all these European countries not destroyed in the Second World War?
Some were rebuilt, others amazingly untouched, others repaired. The ancient old timbered buildings in Bamburg amazed me. I am so glad they were spared. I hear a lot of ancient art and buildings are currently being destroyed in the Middle East. So sad.
Cindy, it really is beautiful. 🙂
Just like you dear Ranu~ <3
Fascinating, very well captured… 🙂
Ahhhh, thank you!
A Merry Christmas to you as well. This post is just beautiful. A.G.
So glad you enjoyed and Merriest Christmas A.G.~
Wow Cindy. So beautiful.
It really was special. Humans are capable of creating such beauty~
Glorious pictures, Cindy.
Christmas and New Year’s Blessings ~ Wendy
Back to you Wendy and look forward to 2016 with you!
Cindy you go to the most beautiful places and I love your photographs! Merry Christmas hugz! Lisa and Bear
Hugs and Merry Christmas back to you guys! <3
Stunning photos Cindy. Definitely no need to deck these halls. Hope you and your family have a lovely Christmas. Cheers Irene
Thank you my friend and the same to you and yours! <3
I so hope to visit Budapest some day Cindy. Your beautiful photos only reinforced that desire!
Good! You will be so glad you did and I want to see your photos!
Absolutely!
Beautiful pictures! Lynn from Lynz real cooking suggested I come visit your blog. I am so glad I did. Have a wonderful day! 🙂
Any friend of Lynn is a friend of mine! Heading over to your blog now.
Thanks Cindy.
The beauty of artistic expression! A wonderful post for Christmas. All the very, very best of the holiday season. See you in 2016!!! Looking forward to following your adventures.
Looking so forward to sharing another year with you Rebecca! Merry Christmas my friend and only the best for 2016! <3 <3
Magnificent, and your photographs are stunning, Cindy! Merry Christmas to you!
You enhance my life my friend. Looking forward to following you in 2016! Merry Christmas~
Thank you! 🙂
Merry Christmas, Cindy! Your photos are so lovely.
You are lovely and look forward to our adventures in 2016! <3
Gorgeous shots, Cindy. I will put Budapest on my travel list. But I must admit I liked the photos of the chocolate a lot better. 🙂 (Just kidding)
The chocolate appeals to a different part of our brains, the naughty part! 🙂
🙂
Budapest…a lifetime fascination with this city, home to my paternal grandfather. Thanks for sharing all this beauty, Cindy. Merry Christmas. Looking forward to your posts in 2016. They are always special. 💂 🎅 👼
As are your posts my friend. You can be proud of your connection with this noble city. I fell in love with Budapest! Merry Christmas~
🎄 Same to you, Cindy, a very Merry !!
Yes, it looks like it is (very beautiful). Would be a wonderful place to visit.
Merry Christmas, Cindy.
And to you my friend. I look forward to our adventures in 2016!
What a great post! Incredible beauty. Now you’ve given me another place I have to visit!
Oh good! It is wonderful to want to visit new places! Cheers to you my friend~
Wow! Incredibly beautiful in detail and architecture.
Merry Christmas, Cindy!
I have thoroughly enjoyed 2015 with you Eliza and look forward to 2016!
Same here, Cindy – may it only get better!
Budapest is another on my Bucket List … and I’m sure you have only given us a small taste. Merry Christmas to you, and safe travels. My Christmas post will be up early Christmas Eve.
Looking forward to your Christmas post & cheers my friend!
Oh, this reminds me of the movie – The Grand Budapest Hotel. And the photos are so majestically beautiful. Mewy Christmas to you, my friend! (´▽`ʃƪ)♡
The lobby photo is this post is the hotel we stayed at which was the model for The Grand Hotel Budapest. It has quite the storied history! Merry Christmas dear friend!
(´▽`ʃƪ)♡ <3
Another one for the list! Amazing. Happy holidays Cindy!
I love adding to lists! Can’t wait to see your photos when you go~
I found myself going through the photos three times, Cindy. Lovely. –Curt
Awwww, so nice and so appreciated. Be well my friend~
Absolutely beautiful photos, Cindy. That lady making pigs in the blanket made me hungry. I ate those at a Hungarian wedding reception In Cleveland, Ohio years ago. They were delicious. 🙂 — Suzanne
I love them! I make them with beef but pork is wonderful too. Very traditional and very good!
Aaaamaaazing photos and Merry Christmas my friend <3
Back to you with bells! <3
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Merry, Merry Christmas dear friend~ <3
The architecture is stunning! Are you traveling again? I forgot to pack my bag! 😃✈️
No, laughing. I am at home and enjoying not traveling for awhile! Baking Christmas cookies and listening to Christmas music. Merry Christmas Dorinda! <3
Such beautiful pictures of this stunning city. Thanks for sharing them with us and a happy holiday season! 🙂
Same to you my friend and Happy Holidays!
Indeed a beautiful city, Cindy. Thank you for this excellent reminder.
Thank you more for the kind appreciation!
It surely doesn’t! I absolutely love the one of the plants on the table, Cindy 🙂 🙂
A very merry Christmas to you and yours!
That is the lobby of the Corinthia Hotel which the Grand Hotel Budapest was modeled on. You have very good taste. But, we already knew this!
A Very Merry Christmas to you Cindy – a the happiest of years ahead for you my friend!
Visa versa 2UX2 Ina. I so look forward to spending 2016 with you my friend! <3 <3
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Simply magnificent Cindy! I love how much thought went into the architecture and design – to have all that ambient light pouring in from above and accenting the gold and various shapes. The day I visit these places, they’re going to have a hard time getting me to leave!
Merry Christmas to you and yours Cindy! And thank you for this precious gift as always. <3 ~Lynn
You get goosebumps and often feel this transendant wonderful peace over come you. Sometimes if you’re lucky, the organist will come to practice, or the choir will practice. When this happens I just sit, listen and cry. It is almost too beautiful to bear.
Merry Christmas, dear Cindy! 🙂
And to you too my dear friend. Only the very best!
Thanks so much, dear Cindy! Cheers! 🙂
Merry Christmas /Happy holidays to you Cindy. Budapest is stunning! What a treasure.
So happy you see it as I do, and Merriest Christmas to you!
Nicely put and nicely coloured and Merry Xmas to all. 🙂
My dear friend Graham. You have made me laugh and smile so much these past years which makes you a very valued friend indeed. Only the festive best for you my friend!
That’s very kind of you and appreciated and I do hope you enjoy your Christmas too. 🙂
Truly, Budapest is so beautiful… with great cakes too! 😛
When do you suppose we will bump into each other on a ship Fae? I hope it is very soon. We can go for cake! <3
Always tempting! Let’s figure out something. 😀 )))
Seriously, let’s!
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Simply the pest, Budapest
I love the rhyme! It is so fitting. Thank you my friend and Happiest Holidays~
Thanks and The Happiest Hours
It must be a fascinating place to visit. The photos are beautiful.
Have a wonderful time over the holidays and all the best for 2016.
Please give Clowie a big Christmas Kiss for me and Happy Holidays to you in beautiful Switzerland! My son is visiting there next year. He is in for a treat!
What a glorious place! Kemo Sabe wants so much to go there in 2016 – without me! Pip
Well you might just let him, only this once. He could bring you back a good Hungarian treat!
frohes Fest und gute Wünsche fürs Jahr 2016
Frohe Weihnacten mein lieber Freund und glückliches Neues Jahr, um Sie und Ihre Lieben!
Deine Europareise ist wundervoll. Ich danke Dir für die fantastischen Eindrücke aus Budapest recht herzlich und wünsche Dir frohe Weihnachten. Ernst
Eine sehr frohe Weihnachten zu Ihnen und Ihrer Familie mein lieber Freund Ernst!
Extraordinarily beautiful dear Cindy ! Thank you for the many inspirational blessings you have given this past year …merry Christmas …hugs and love , megxxx
Thank you for your radiant talent my friend and for your friendship. Merriest Christmas~
Beautiful photographs of beauty…and truth!
I always think of Keats when I see beauty that is so perfect it almost hurts~
🙂
Oh my gosh…so MUCH beauty. Great photographs!
Thank you so much my friend and thank you for the beauty you send so regularly to my screen. It enhances my life~ <3
I feel exactly the same about you, Cindy…Happy Holidays to you! 🙂
Amazing architectural artists. We don’t see that so much in the modern world. Just beautiful.
When I look at these big glass and concrete box buildings and huge electronic flashing signs, I get sad and wonder what happened to us? Why did we lose this cultivation of beauty that we obviously had in the past?
I suppose its too simple to say its all about money and profit…or perhaps that we don’t support the arts like we used to. I’m glad these places still exist. A feast for the eyes 🙂
What a gorgeous city. Thanks for sharing your amazing photos, Cindy. You’ve done a beautiful job capturing the grandeur of these buildings. I’ve never been, and must add it to my ever-growing list of travel destinations.
It is so good for your psyche to have an ever growing list of travel destinations! It is even better when you start ticking them off, which I hope you will share with me when you do! <3
Well said, Cindy! And yes, looking forward to ticking things off that list.
Hit reply too soon: Merry Christmas!!!
And to you and Healthy & Happy New Year! <3
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Thanks for sharing! Since I will never travel there, this post is a treat!
There is very much to be said for traveling in your mind. I do it all the time via other people’s blogs when I am home and I love it too! Happy Holidays to you~ <3
Oh, has 20 year passed since we last visted Budapest! Must get back.
Oscar
Wow! The old section has not changed much I imagine except for Andrassy. Would love to hear your impressions when you return. I met an American exchange student in the grocery store. This happens all the time. He was homesick over the holidays. Merry Christmas my friend to you and your family!
Impressive!
Truly so!
Thanks for all your photographs, Cindy. Compliments of the Season to you and your family…
Wonderful to hear from you Russel. Happiest of Holidays my friend and thanks so much for popping by! <3
HAPPY HOLIDAYS CINDY
Thank you my friend and same to you! <3
Merry Christmas and Happy Near Year to you and your blessed family.
Sweet Eunice! This is our third Christmas together my dear friend. Only the very best wishes to you and your family! <3
Wow 3 years already. So blessed to know you through your blog xo
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What a stunning collection of ceilings and rooftops. Memo: look up if I get to Budapest.
I get good neck extension exercise visiting a city like Budapest! 😉
Wish You Merry Christmas
and health, happiness and success
for the coming year.
Greeting from Lis
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I love you and your angel Lis! Thank you so much and a Blessed Christmas and New Year to you my dear friend! <3
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Frohoe Weihnachten mein Lieber Freund! <3
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year 🙂
You too Leyla and thank you my friend~ <3
Merry Christmas to you Cindy!!
And Happy New Yeat to you Belen! <3
exquisite photos!
So kind and so appreciated! Happy New Year~
My pleasure!
Happy Christmas to you too Cindy. Enjoy the day.
I hope your Christmas was wonderful Pauline and Happiest New Year to you and Jack!
Same to you Cindy. Looking forward to following your adventures around the world and visiting your lovely Holla
Merry Christmas to you, Cindy! :o)
Happy Healthy New Year to you!
Thank you Cindy. I appreciate that and likewise. :O)
Sí, Budapest es una ciudad preciosa que cuenta su historia con esos edificios tan bellos. ¡Feliz Navidad! <3 <3 <3
Exactamente! Prospero Ano Nuevo y abrazos amiga mia! <3
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So pleased you enjoyed them my friend and Happiest & Healthiest New Year to you! <3
I love that city too! Very beautiful, as pictured in your gorgeous photos. My current client has offices there, so I might get lucky and go there this spring again, we’ll see.
Budapest must be lovely in the spring! I hope you do go and post your photos. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you too!
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Glorious! Cindy, I hope you are having the best holiday season with your loved ones! <3
I hope the same for you Resa & a Wonderful 2016! <3
Looking forward to seeing more beauty with you in 2016, wherever you may roam. 🙂
Visa versa 2 U! We have been sharing each other’s lives for three years now and knowing you has been a gift to me! Happy New Year Mandy~
Awww, thanks.
Liebe Cindy wunderschöne Foto hab einen schönen Sonntag mit vielen lieben Grüßen Klaus in Freundschaft
Frohes neues Jahr mein lieber Freund Klaus!
Beautifully themed with the holidays. Happy holidays Cindy. 🙂
Happiest & Healthiest New Year to you and thank you so much for your thoughtfulness! <3
Thank you. 🙂
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Wow, fabulous! The craftsmen who have left their mark were outstanding.
I always wonder who they are, and what their life was like. There is such talent and beauty in what they created that has lasted for future generations to wonder at.
Yes, they must have had such talent. They probably passed it down, and it’s latent in all of us. I see that beauty in your photographs.
Oh what a lovely comment Brenda, which shouldn’t surprise since it comes from your beautiful heart. Happy New Year to you and your loved ones~ <3
I had no idea that Budapest would have this type of architecture. Stunning!
It was an eye opener for me too. I find Eastern Europe to be incredibly beautiful and less touristed. Happy New Year my friend!
Happy New Year! Safe travels.
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beautiful indeed 😉
Thank you & Happy New Year!
thank you 🙂
Wow! Beautiful indeed!
Thanks Rebecca & Have a Wonderful New Years Eve!
Many years ago I had the chance to visit Budapest and I did not take it…and have regretted it ever since. The third shot you have is simply majestic, shows incredible talent, beauty and for me a history that I would have love to have seen. Travel can be such fun and rewarding, and even when not actually visiting but instead seeing your pics and reading your words is almost just as good 🙂
I think a true traveler is always traveling in their minds. Looking at photos of other people trips and experiences just keeps the mental dialogue and imagery going. Our imagination is the ultimate traveler and photos keep us ever exploring. Happy New Year Randall~
These all draw us up and up!!!!
It is a wonderful feeling and why I like to spend time in these incredible cathedrals! Happiest New Year my friend~ <3
Your travel photos are just amazing, I’ve added Hungary to my must see list.
I have a feeling Charlotte, that in your life, you will visit most all of the world. Happy New Year my friend~ <3
Dear Cindy, did you also do the art Nouveau and Art Deco trip and visited the peculiar Art Deco museum? I do hope you also went to take a tea-time at the big art Nouveau bookstore’s third floor where we spend ‘hours’ looking at the decorations, enjoying very nice cakes and coffee.
It is an amazing city isn’t it? So much to see and explore on both sides of the river. We didn’t visit this museum, but we stayed in the Art Deco section of the city and explore so many glorious Deco buildings, like the Lyst Academy pictured here. We stayed in the Art Deco hotel that was the inspiration for the movie The Grand Hotel Budapest. It is an Deco tour de force. Gorgeous, historic, old city. Did you visit St Stephens Basilica? Stunning.
A pity we had no time to go in St Stephens Basilica. But next time we shall visit the city it will be on our list. We made plans to return again to that beautiful city to stay there for at least three days.
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these are amazing places and thank you Cindy, for letting us see them with such wonderful photography! Beautiful post!
Grazie mille!
De nada!