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The river levels where very high due to recent flooding.

The river levels where very high due to recent flooding.

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/hector_va_a_su_bola/">lameato feliz</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/hector_va_a_su_bola/55094553559/" title="Budapest en Navidad"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094553559_dc099fda34_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Budapest en Navidad" /></a></p>

<p>Nacimiento</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/163737578@N08/">kev.schalke04</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/163737578@N08/55094465409/" title="630039 at Kobanya Kispest on the 0837 Zahony-Budapest Nyugati, 20 January 2026,"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094465409_df126340b8_m.jpg" width="240" height="183" alt="630039 at Kobanya Kispest on the 0837 Zahony-Budapest Nyugati, 20 January 2026," /></a></p>

<p>630039 at Kobanya Kispest on the 0837 Zahony-Budapest Nyugati, 20 January 2026,</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/163737578@N08/">kev.schalke04</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/163737578@N08/55094402838/" title="630036 at Zuglo on a service out of Budapest Nyugati, 20 January 2026,"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094402838_6fd1abe624_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="630036 at Zuglo on a service out of Budapest Nyugati, 20 January 2026," /></a></p>

<p>630036 at Zuglo on a service out of Budapest Nyugati, 20 January 2026,</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/163737578@N08/">kev.schalke04</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/163737578@N08/55093316482/" title="418177 at Zuglo, 20 January 2026,"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55093316482_7b87a260d9_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="418177 at Zuglo, 20 January 2026," /></a></p>

<p>418177 at Zuglo, 20 January 2026,</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/i_csuhai/">Istvan</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/163737578@N08/55094058780/" title="1353, Budapest tram at Jaszai Mari tram stop, 20 January 2026,"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094058780_f4b6c2d3f0_m.jpg" width="240" height="188" alt="1353, Budapest tram at Jaszai Mari tram stop, 20 January 2026," /></a></p>

<p>1353, Budapest tram at Jaszai Mari tram stop, 20 January 2026,</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/163737578@N08/">kev.schalke04</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/163737578@N08/55094060645/" title="1345, Budapest tram approaching Haller/Mestar tram stop, 20 January 2026,"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094060645_e2ec124f04_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="1345, Budapest tram approaching Haller/Mestar tram stop, 20 January 2026," /></a></p>

<p>1345, Budapest tram approaching Haller/Mestar tram stop, 20 January 2026,</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/walnussbaer/">walnussbaer</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/scatman_otis/">scatman otis</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/scatman_otis/55093722864/" title="Budapest January 2026"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55093722864_95ef1db718_m.jpg" width="240" height="181" alt="Budapest January 2026" /></a></p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/hector_va_a_su_bola/">lameato feliz</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/hector_va_a_su_bola/55092525007/" title="Budapest en Navidad"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55092525007_cf8b2a72d0_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" alt="Budapest en Navidad" /></a></p>

<p>Compartiendo el momento</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/hector_va_a_su_bola/">lameato feliz</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Mercadillo de Navidad</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/jainbow/">Jainbow</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jainbow/55093142791/" title="Budapest Dog Painting"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55093142791_6ca956fc69_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Budapest Dog Painting" /></a></p>

<p>Last bit of artwork from outside the Ruin Bars in Budapest - I had to take this photo cos the dog reminded me of Harbie!!</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/attilastefan/">attila.stefan</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Early Modern Hungary was one of the most backward and oppressive regimes in Europe, with the Hungarian nobility prioritizing their feudal privileges (exemption from taxes, claims upon serfs' rents and labor) above all other concerns. In 1514, as Ottoman forces broke out of the Balkans and bore down on central Europe, Pope Leo X called for a crusade against the Ottomans to protect Christendom. Hungary's peasants rallied to the call, but the nobility--fearing an armed peasantry and unwilling to lose their labor in the fields--resisted. The peasants then turned against the nobility in the revolutionary Dózsa Revolt. This rebellion was crushed brutally. Its leader, György Dózsa, was mocked as King of the Peasants and executed by being placed on a red hot throne, with a red hot crown upon his head. His followers were forced to eat his flesh while he was still alive, and the nobility imposed a perpetual serfdom upon the peasants. <br />
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A dozen years later, in 1526, Ottoman armies under Suleiman the Magnificent marched into Hungary, defeated the noble armies, and killed the Hungarian king, Louis II. For the next century and a half Hungary was plundered: by the Ottomans, who enslaved Hungarians for service in the Janissary Corps; by the Hapsburgs, who laid claim to both occupied and unoccupied regions of Hungary; and by the Hungarian nobility themselves, who often lived in a comfortable exile in Austria but sent collectors to their old estates to extort payments from the peasants. <br />
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In 1686 Hapsburg and Hungarian forces evicted the Ottomans, but the Hapsburgs ruled Hungary as a colony, stifling industry and maintaining the harsh feudal system, which generally pleased the Hungarian nobles, who sought only the maintenance of their privileges. So, in 1848, Hungary was again swept up in revolution, along with much of Europe, as commoners were joined by modernizers calling for the abolition of feudal privileges, for personal freedoms, and for constitutionalism. A Hungarian revolutionary government abolished serfdom, proclaimed civil equality, and ended the tax exemption of the Hungarian nobility. <br />
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Unlike most of the 1848 Revolutions, the one in Hungary escalated into full scale war. But this revolution, like Dózsa Revolt, was also crushed. Austria called for assistance from Russia and, with the aid of 200,000 Russian soldiers, defeated the Revolutionary forces and executed its leaders. But even in defeat, the Revolution somehow achieved its aims. The Hapsburgs recognized they could not force the peasants back into serfdom. They maintained its abolition, and the abolition of the tax exempt status of the nobility. Soon, in 1867, a weakened Austria was forced to recognize Hungary as an equal partner in the empire, creating a Dual Monarchy. This allowed Hungary to reform its parliament and granted it autonomy in internal affairs, which led to a period of rapid modernization.<br />
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Above, the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, the brainchild of the reforming Hungarian nobleman, Count István Széchenyi (1791-1860). Széchenyi was a wealthy Hungarian nobleman who argued that feudalism was bad for the nation and for the nobility because it stifled innovation. He hoped and believed (perhaps incorrectly) that change could be brought about by reform rather than revolution. Before 1848, he was deeply involved in modernizing and development schemes, one of which was the creation of a bridge to connect the two halves of the capital, Buda and Pest, which were often separated by dangerous waters or ice floes of the Danube. The most striking feature of the bridge was the symbolic insistence by Széchenyi that nobles, too, must pay a toll to cross it, an insistence that reeked of class treason to many among the nobility. The bridge was completed in 1849, just after the Revolution of 1848 was defeated and while Széchenyi himself was institutionalized for a mental breakdown brought on by the Revolution. But the bridge soon came to represent, like Széchenyi himself, the modernizing spirit in Hungary. The Chain Bridge, with Buda Castle in background, Budapest, Hungary.</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/lapsangphotos/">Lapsang Photos</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Planes I can identify in the badges: <br />
Як-40 Yak-40<br />
Ил12 Il-12<br />
Ту-134 Tu-134<br />
Ан-26 An-26<br />
Ан-74 An-74<br />
Ан-12 An-12<br />
Ту-114 Tu-114<br />
Ту-144 Tu-144<br />
Ту-154 Tu-154<br />
Ан-17 An-17</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/hector_va_a_su_bola/">lameato feliz</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/hector_va_a_su_bola/55092272936/" title="Budapest en Navidad"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55092272936_6156f6097b_m.jpg" width="166" height="240" alt="Budapest en Navidad" /></a></p>

<p>El interior de San Esteban, catedral de Budapest...Nave lateral</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/locosteve/">Loco Steve</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Captured at the Hungarian Railway Museum (Magyar Vasúttörténeti Park) in Budapest, this is the MÁV Pft 661-U, a specialized track-inspection vehicle.<br />
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Based on the Polish-built FSO Warszawa M20 (a licensed version of the Soviet GAZ-M20 Pobeda), these "sínautók" (rail-cars) were modified by the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) for maintenance and inspection duties. While the body remains largely stock—complete with its 2.1L inline-four engine—the original tires were swapped for flanged steel wheels to navigate the standard gauge tracks.<br />
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To solve the issue of reversing on rails, these cars were equipped with a mechanical center-jack under the chassis, allowing the driver to lift and manually rotate the entire vehicle 180° on the spot. Though the original car could reach 105 km/h, railway safety regulations typically capped these draisines at 80 km/h. Today, it stands as a rare survivor of the roughly 200 Warszawa rail-conversions ever produced.</p>

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