Björn Roose's posts from November 2020

Nov. 30, 2020

Simontornya (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 1

Simontornya is the name of a town located some twenty kilometers under the most eastern point of Lake Balaton. It is also the name of the Renaissance castle in…

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Nov. 30, 2020

Dunaújváros (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 4

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Nov. 29, 2020

Dunaújváros (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 3

We started our walk through the Szoborpark in this post and continued walking in this one. Mmmh, what shall we do in this third one in the Dunaújváros series…

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Nov. 28, 2020

Dunaújváros (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 2

I introduced you to Dunaújváros, formerly known as Sztálinváros (Stalin City) and the Szoborpark (park of statues) in the previous post. So, without further…

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Nov. 27, 2020

Dunaújváros (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 1

So, we only stopped for a short while in Dunaföldvár (see here), but I wasn't expecting to stay for a long time in Dunaújváros either. There used to be a…

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Nov. 27, 2020

Dunaföldvár (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020

Every now and then a planned stop turns out to be not as interesting as hoped. We had only planned to see this tower in Dunaföldvár, but even that tower was not…

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Nov. 26, 2020

Fülöpháza (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 3

Last part of the Fülöpháza mini series (part 1 and 2 are here and here). We didn't meet a lot of fauna (although we did see traces of its presence), but here's…

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Nov. 26, 2020

Fülöpháza (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 2

We entered the natural reserve of Fülöpháza in the previous post. In this one we keep on walking, looking at the landscape and looking at the bottom.

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Nov. 25, 2020

Fülöpháza (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 1

From the Kiskunpuszta steppe we move to the Fülöpháza natural reserve. Central in the natural reserve are the last shifting dunes in Hungary. Of course you…

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Nov. 25, 2020

Kiskunpuszta (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 4

Last one of the Kiskunpuszta posts (here's part 1, 2 and 3). Last look at the draw well and the cattle too. A few days later I got the chance to safely approach…

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Nov. 24, 2020

Kiskunpuszta (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 3

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Nov. 24, 2020

Kiskunpuszta (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 2

While I did not meet any human being on the steppe, I did meet a herd of cattle. We'll get a little closer to them in the next posts, but in this one you get to…

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Nov. 23, 2020

Kiskunpuszta (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 1

We were on a puszta before in this Summer 2020-series: Kunpuszta (see here, here and here). While kis means "small" in Hungarian, in this case it does not refer…

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Nov. 23, 2020

Ráckeve (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 5

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Nov. 22, 2020

Ráckeve (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 4

And we continue looking at the water. One of these photos is actually not from the "free beach" we were on, but hey, it has water in it :-)

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Nov. 21, 2020

Ráckeve (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 3

So, we were in Ráckeve on a beach (the szabadstrand) when we started this series. You did however not see any beach in the second post either. So ... maybe in…

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Nov. 20, 2020

Ráckeve (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 2

In case you'd expect sand on a beach (see here), that's not necessarily the case on Hungarian beaches. Sometimes there's even flowers on them, or at least close…

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Nov. 20, 2020

Ráckeve (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 1

Near Budapest there's an island on the Danube, Csepel Island. It is the largest island on the Danube in Hungary (48 kilometer long and between 6 and 8…

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Nov. 19, 2020

Bugyi (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 2

So, we coincidentally found this Jewish cemetery in the previous post. Why not look around for one more post?

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Nov. 19, 2020

Bugyi (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 1

We drove through Bugyi between Ócsa (see previous series) and our next destination and I remember saying to my girlfriend that that was a funny name for a…

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Björn Roose's posts from November 2020

Dunaújváros (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 4

Kiskunpuszta (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 3

Ráckeve (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 5