Ceaucescu's Megalomania

The palace that Ceaucescu built, now known as Casa Popului (people's house), photographed from the 15th floor of the BCR building on Calea Victoriei

Liszt Ferenc tér on a Summer Morning

One of the nicest places in Budapest to have a quiet brunch and good coffee is Liszt Ferenc tér. In good weather, terrasses welcome the tourists

Mures (Maros) Valley Sunset

The main road between Arad and Deva follows the Mures (Maros, Mieresch), a river running from the Carpathians (Gyergyó range in Székely country) to the Tisa in Szeged.

The scenery along this road is some of the nicest in Central Europe: nature as it was. The road is busy, trucks going from the Romanian heartland direction Western Europe. It runs through some nice villages such as Savarsin, where the royal family had a castle.

The area the Mures runs through is typical of Central Europe and specifically Transylvania: multi-ethnic, multi-cultured. The Mures springs in Székelyföld, runs through Hungarian and Saxon areas with a lot of Romanian villages on its banks.