friztpatrick's PhotoBlog

Buddha

2008-09-01T09:46:06Z

Buddha, ours dog

2008-08-20T11:20:25Z

He was the BEST!!! Koló

2008-07-15T20:22:11Z

Gyorgy Kolonics, a canoeing gold medalist at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, died Tuesday after collapsing in his canoe while training for the Beijing Games. He was 36. He lost consciousness and paramedics were unable to resuscitate him, the Hungarian Olympic Committee said. The committee cited heart failure as the probable cause of death. "Kolonics was a true legend of Hungarian sports, an athlete at the peak of his career who was in a class by himself," committee president Pal Schmitt said in a statement. Kolonics won 15 world championships between 1993-07, most teamed with Csaba Horvath. In May, Kolonics and Gyorgy Kozmann won a silver medal in the 500-meter doubles at the European Championships in Milan, Italy. Kolonics won gold in the 500-meter canoe doubles at the Atlanta Games and the 500-meter singles at the Sydney Games. He also won bronze in Atlanta in the 1,000-meter doubles with Horvath and in the same event at the 2004 Athens Games with Kozmann. Kolonics was training with Kozmann for next month's games, which would have been his fifth Olympics. Miss YOU Koló...

Ádám with Me

2008-07-06T21:03:45Z

The picture two years old.

Babakocsi

2008-07-04T19:07:59Z

Sissi

2008-06-21T20:43:33Z

Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Duchess in Bavaria and Princess of Bavaria (December 24, 1837 - September 10, 1898), of the House of Wittelsbach, was Empress-Consort of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary due to her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph. From an early age, she was called Sisi (or Sissi in films and novels) by family and friends. This is Sisi monument in Budapest.

Práter Street and The Paul Street Boys

2008-06-21T19:41:09Z

The novel is about schoolboys in the rapidly developing Budapest at the turn of the 20th century, who defend their playground, the "grund", from the "redshirts", a team of other boys who want to occupy it. The boys regard the "grund" as their "Fatherland", constitute themselves its "National Army" and constantly use all the terminology of nationalism as common at the time - in Hungary as elsewhere in Europe. The "battle", fought with "sandbombs" is decided by self-sacrifice of the smallest and weakest Pal street boy, Ernő Nemecsek, whom the other boys earlier called a traitor and whose name they wrote down without capital letters. Nemecsek, already gravely ill, dies of pneumonia after the battle. Soon after his death, the boys are chased off their beloved "grund"/"Fatherland" by engineers who inform them that an apartment building would be erected on the spot. The book ends with a mood of dejection and disillusion, with a character remarking bitterly "The Fatherland has betrayed us". The book can thus be seen as a biting satire of European nationalism and a premonition of the First World War which broke out a few years after its publication. The message gets through, even though the book is not about politics and is an easy reading for children.

R.I.P Pöttöm

2008-06-18T13:31:38Z

Pöttöm, She was our hamster :( R.I.P Pöttöm 01.07. 2006 - 06. 25. 2008

My lamp with books

2008-06-15T12:50:19Z

St Stephen's Basilica

2008-06-15T13:43:41Z

St Stephen's Basilica (Szent István Bazilika) was named in honour of Stephen the first King of Hungary. It is fitting that this the largest church in Budapest and the King's namesake, houses the mummified right hand of St. Stephen.