25 Oct 2021, Monday

 25 Oct 2021, Monday

Prioritized Daily Task

1:00 AM - take Covid test at BudapestAirport Terminal B to be able to return to the USA

9;25 AM - Breakfast at our hotel in the Budapest Airport complex

10:15 AM - Ljubica drove us to the old part of Budapest on a hill overlooking the Danube River and Buda and Pest.  I took pictures of Matthias Church, The Fisherman's Bastion, Buda Castle, House of Houdini, Hungarian Parliament Building, Jewish Cemetery with the holocaust Tree of Life  Monument in memory of the 600,000 Hungarian Jews who were murdered by the German Nazis and the Hungarian collaborators during World War II, Hospital in the Rock, and dinner in the New York Cafe in the Anantara New York Place Hotel.

8:30 PM - We got out Covid test results back and they were negative.  We are now free to travel back to the United States.

                                   

                                                         Bojana, Debbie, Ljubica, Mirko at

                                                                       Matthias Church

                                                          The Fisherman's Bastion

                                                                  Buda Castle  

                                                          

                                      Hungarian Parliament Building on Danube River                                                         

                                                           

 

 The weeping willow Tree of Life monument is made of metal, and consists of thousands of small leaves, on each leaf the name of one of the Jews of the Budapest Ghetto who perished in the Holocaust is engraved.

                                            Hospital in the Rock                                                          

                me wearing a gas mask like the ones used during the war                                      

                               Pictures were taken of the hospital during the war.  Construction began in 1939 and the emergency surgical centre was completed in 1944. Its primary role was to provide general emergency care for injured civilians, later on they treated soldiers as well. Anybody could get treatment there, regardless of their gender, race, religion or ethnicity. The chief nurse of the Hungarian Red Cross, Countess Edelsheim-Gyulai Ilona, was there at the time of the opening and worked in the hospital as a nurse. The hospital was staffed by approximately 40 doctors, nurses, and assistants together.  The hospital was designed to treat 60–70 patients, but at one point was being used to treat 600 wounded soldiers.                      The hospital tunnel system was connected to an existing tunnel network by manual labor. The original system had been in use by various inhabitants of the castle for many years and was said to have been part of a penal system in centuries past.

 

                                     

      Ljubica, Debbie, Bojana, Mirko at  Anantara New York Place Hotel

                    New York Cafe in the Anantara New York Place Hotel

                 Eating at the New York Cafe is like eating in a museum