Photographs from Hungary

I’ve just spent a rather nice week at an astronomy conference in Visegrad, Hungary. It’s a little town on the banks of the Danube, about 40km away from Budapest. The people were friendly and I was pleasantly surprised to find Hungary was far more modern than I ignorantly expected. I only have a single free day in Budapest to look round, but it was enough to make me resolve to come back one day and explore the city properly. I’ve created a flickr account have uploaded some photos that I took.

I flew out of the UK before this latest travel fiasco kick off. The UK government forced everybody to check their all their carry on baggage. This created more panic than the actual terror threat as legions of conference and business travellers were forced to entrust the baggage apes with their laptop computers. Luckly the limitations didn’t apply on the way back into the UK and I managed to avoid it, but I can imagine that there could have been a lot of missed meetings and talks as people refused to chance their luck.