Love this city!

Every corner has eye candy - The skyline fascinates me - so much different architecture outlined against the sky - especially today with bright blue skies.

Using public transport we headed out.  We used the tram first (see yesturdays pics), then the metro.  This line anyway is so quaint.  There are only 3 short carriages to each train, and the platform is only that long!  A tiny station which is only down one flight of stairs, so only just below ground.  Transport is free for European citizens over 65.  We just needed to carry our British passports with us as ID.  Weren’t asked on our trips today.

First to “The Shoes” on the bank of the River Danube.  These are shoe sculptures memorializing those killed at the river by a fascist party during WWII.

The militia apparently ordered the victims to take off their shoes, then they were shot and dumped in the Danube. 

This is nearby The House of Parliament in all its finery: what a contrast of visions these sights conjure up.

To add to this imagery we planned go to the Terror Museum, but its closed on Mondays - probably just as well.

Instead we continued on the Metro to The City Park with the Heroes Square, with all its grandeur.

And if that wasn’t enough eye candy, how about Vajdahunyad Castle next door - 

Only looked on the outside - could be back for more another day.

We went back to the Jewish Quarter for lunch and to rest our weary legs, then into the The Great Synagogue - the biggest in Europe, the second biggest in the world.

This of course also had memorials to poor lost lives of the horrors of WWII

This sculpture is called The Walk.

And this one The Tree.  Each leaf bears the name of a person lost.