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A wander around the old town of Zadar in Croatia
After visiting the capital of Croatia, Zagreb, for a day we headed to Zadar for a few days on the beach. I say beach but the Croatian coast is mostly rocks. It is a beautiful coastline but not sandcastle compliant. Between Zagreb and Zadar is an incredible mountain range that helped keep the Italians out…
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The people of Zagreb in Croatia
In 2012 we spent an afternoon walking around the Old Town of Zagreb which is the capital of Croatia. The old town is architecturally wonderful and at the end of our walk was a market. No-one seemed to mind me taking photos and it’s a shame there was a language barrier. I would have liked…
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Budapest Baths
In 2012 my wife and I visited the Szechenyi Baths in Budapest. I say baths but think leisure pools. Space to swim or to sit. We visited the most popular of them, which in September 2012, was not packed out to cause me any anxiety. Apparently a wonderful thing to do is go in the…
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2012 – Budapast wanderings
Our 4th day in Budapest was uneventful. We were taking it easy as the next day would be our last in the city and we had a big trip out to the baths planned along with more kert visiting. As each day passed I fell more and more in love with the little Fuji X100.…
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2012 – Budapest views
It’s day 3 of our stay in Budapest. I’m happy I can eat food and we wander. It is another very hot day. Our wander takes us around the city seeing new and interesting architecture. Budapest architecture has interesting pastel style colours to it. There’s a definite trend of yellow and green in the city.…
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2012 – A full day in Budapest
Budapest was hot. I sticky kind of hot as if you were a melted plastic toy covered in cat fluff. Our British friend Ben took us for a walk around the city. Nowhere in specific. A general wander that took in a few sights with no real pressure to be anywhere. It was nice. Hot,…
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2012 – Budapest
Arriving in Budapest in late August and it was hot. Really really hot. We met my wife’s friend there and he lead us to our apartment for the week. It was my first time staying somewhere that wasn’t a hotel and I was a bit nervous. Where does food come from in the morning? (Spoiler:…
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2012 – The Return to Paris – Part Deux
A full day to wander around Paris before leaving for the sleeper train to Budapest. This was my first real test of the new Fuji X100 and it was a joy to use. I felt like a proper street photographer using a Leica. It’s easy to be energised by a new camera and a city…
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2012 – The Return to Paris
2010 was my first trip to Paris where I fell in love with the architecture and simple food I enjoyed. 2011 was a flying visit on the way back from Valencia. In 2012 we took another flying visit on the start of a 3 week European tour as happy Europeans with our European passport that…