Pete's second week

After the weather has improved in Ber and we had a few outings and a hike we returned to BP via the Matra. The picture with the nice long view behind the tall trees was taken looking North towards Slovakia en route to BP.

Pete has become quite independent by the second week, so while Roy went with him to Szentendre on the HEV, all other trips he did on his own. His love of art, architecture and all things in museums came into its own. He discovered one which I will have to go and see one day myself. It is called the Bedo House and I have been an admirer of its beautiful Art Nouveau exterior for years. It is opposite my old bank branch where I watched for years the process of its renovation. The gallery and exhibition are on the ground floor, but you can visit the basement and the first floor for some more furniture, furnishings, pictures etc.

In the meantime the planned boat trip had to be cancelled because of the floods that stopped all boats sailing this week. Roy found some pictures on the Internet about the floods but they turned out to be last year's, so this is an annual event. Except, last year they happened at the end of June, this year all this monsoon rain we had brought them forward.

As you can see Pete revisited Heroes' Square, this time in the daytime, and took some lovely piccies of the 9th century Hungarian chieftains at the bottom of the column. He was also much fascinated by the mosaics of the other museum opposite the Fine Arts one, which sparkled in the sunshine. The big church in the picture is that of the St. Stephen's Basilica which is now looking spectacular after its multi-million forint facelift.

I hope Pete has a good trip home. I have just looked on the Internet and his plane left Gatwick nearly half an hour late en routws to BP, but that means it will be bang on time as it never needs the scheduled 2 and half hours in my experience. In fact Ferihegy has just put it up as expected 2 minutes late, so that should be OK.