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FEBRUARY 2024

Budapest.

Budapest in February with my friends: the bridges, the baths and a night in a ruin bar.

I went to Budapest with a group of friends at the end of February 2024. We walked the Danube on both banks, climbed Castle Hill and spent an afternoon in the open-air pool at Széchenyi.

The nights went to the bars. The last afternoon went to Fisherman’s Bastion and an eagle.

Param in a cap and white hoodie standing on the Danube embankment, the Chain Bridge beside him and Buda Castle across the river
The Pest embankment under the Chain Bridge, the palace across the river.
Param leaning on a stone parapet on Castle Hill, the Chain Bridge and the Parliament building on the river below
Castle Hill, the Chain Bridge and Parliament laid out below.
Param leaning on the iron railing of the Chain Bridge at dusk, a pink sunset over the lit Buda bank behind him
Back down on the Chain Bridge as the light went.
Three of us holding still while the number 7 pulls in behind.
Param and two friends waist-deep in the outdoor pool at Széchenyi Baths, the yellow bathhouse and its dome behind them
Széchenyi, the outdoor pool, three of us in it.
Param laughing over his shoulder in the warm pool at Széchenyi, the yellow facade blurred behind him
The water is warm, the air is February.
The whole group in one frame at Széchenyi.
Param sitting on a green metal stool in a ruin bar, chin on his fist, a lit lampshade and graffiti-covered walls behind him
A ruin bar, every wall written on.
Param sitting in a stone arch at Fisherman’s Bastion in a varsity jacket, blue sky and the city beyond
Sat in one of the bastion arches, the city beyond.
Param laughing beside an eagle perched on a falconer’s gloved hand at Fisherman’s Bastion
Fisherman’s Bastion, an eagle on the falconer’s glove.