Kossuth Lajos tér

I’ve been toying with putting pictures and video on here, and I want to start making mini photo albums. While words are the key component to any story, images might give you a better idea of where I am and what I do over here. Especially those people without facebook, where I put up all my photos (I was never one for flikr or jalbum), miss all that stuff. So. Here is the first of the mini albums:

Kossuth Lajos tér.

Sam, Jaro and I are walking back from Iguana, one of the only Mexican restaurants in Budapest. It’s decent. No Mexican food like home though. Iguana has shut down the street (conveniently located 50 meters away from the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy) and has lights and tents and a Mariachi band. We get there early but by the time we leave, it’s packed with expats. All speaking English. Jaro and I see a couple real (!) Mexicans, those from back home. It’s amazing to think they actually came to Budapest. Of all places.

Iguana’s also happens to be located right by the Parliament, which as probably all of you know, is amazingly beautiful. Across the street, there’s a metro station named after Kossuth Lajos, one of those famous Hungarians (there really are too many of them). And this is where we begin:

Waiting for Jaro to stop talking and finish his cigarette.


Down into the depths...


Waiting with a man and his dog.


The metro finally comes in.


It's not ours.


What not to do in the metro.

After waiting 15 minutes, a woman came down and told us to leave the station, because the last metro had run long ago. Then why the hell didn't you block off the entrance to the escalator?! Her answer is incoherent. Great.

So we walk. As we're going back the way we came, towards Deák tér, we stop by Imre Nagy and pay our respects.


Imre Nagy was the political leader of the 1956 Revolution against Soviet oppression. After his friend sold him out to the Russians, he was hung for his misdeeds. Today, long after the Hungarian battle cries roared above the city and Soviet tanks came marching in, Nagy still stands watching his rightful place: Parliament.