{"id":3329,"date":"2008-12-02T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:55:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:55:33","slug":"hello-from-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/hello-from-budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/3077623759\/\" title=\"Budapest street corner market by m-c, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3150\/3077623759_6d0a22d437_o.jpg\" height=\"230\" alt=\"Budapest street corner market\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/3078455434\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3191\/3078455434_1e2886da8f_m.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After spending some days in Salzburg, eating pastries and visiting a traditional hut-stop high in the mountains from which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/3078395828\/in\/photostream\/\">sliding down was like an adrenaline kick,<\/a> i headed to Budapest where i have spent my first day walking around traditionnal coffee houses and enjoying myself.<\/p>\n<p>The city remembers me of Paris, exept that there is no Marais. It remembers me of Berlin, except that there is nowhere a sign of the city inhabitant&#8217;s identity crisis.<\/p>\n<p>I wish Budapest would have some of the artsy area which i most like about european cities, streets to wander around and look at artists work &#8211; jewelery, fashion, kiosks&#8230; Maybe i did not walked enough yet, but right now i miss the clash caused by the contrast of the old and the new, the visible mark left in between generations. This i have not seen yet, neither in people&#8217;s style and in the architecture. But again, there are still 3 days to this trip. Right now, i am enjoying myself in views which look like they could be taken out from Maira Kalman&#8217;s journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending some days in Salzburg, eating pastries and visiting a traditional hut-stop high in the mountains from which sliding down was like an adrenaline kick, i headed to Budapest where i have spent my first day walking around traditionnal coffee houses and enjoying myself. The city remembers me of Paris, exept that there is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/hello-from-budapest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hello from Budapest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8062,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions\/8062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}