Free things to do in Budapest

Budapest’s House of Terror Museum is free to visit this week (until 27 September)
Budapest’s House of Terror Museum has reopened after a week-long closure, offering free admission to all visitors during its first week back. The reopening follows the dismissal of the museum’s long-serving director, Mária Schmidt, and a demonstration outside the institution.

Here is everything you need to know before visiting....click the link above.... - @fluffy2560

Thanks for the info.

Might check it out.

Husband has an aversion to that time but perhaps he is ready to visit.

He always says, I lived it why go see it?

RIP to all who passed.

Budapest’s House of Terror Museum is free to visit this week (until 27 September)Budapest’s House of Terror Museum has reopened after a week-long closure, offering free admission to all visitors during its first week back. The reopening follows the dismissal of the museum’s long-serving director, Mária Schmidt, and a demonstration outside the institution. Here is everything you need to know before visiting....click the link above.... - @fluffy2560Thanks for the info.Might check it out.Husband has an aversion to that time but perhaps he is ready to visit.He always says, I lived it why go see it?RIP to all who passed. - @Marilyn Tassy

I think it's useful to be reminded of what went before.   

It's a warning for the young too.  People today are too keen to support fascists (and communists of that time were red fascists).  It was terrorism. It's 26 years since 9/11, 80 years since WW2 and almost 40 years since the fall of the Wall.  There are generations who never saw it and for whom it was too distant.  Reminders are needed and those who experienced it have to tell the young 'uns warnings to listen to the alarm bells of history. 

It's 4K HUF for an adult so free is a very attractive offer.

Budapest’s House of Terror Museum is free to visit this week (until 27 September)
Budapest’s House of Terror Museum has reopened after a week-long closure, offering free admission to all visitors during its first week back. The reopening follows the dismissal of the museum’s long-serving director, Mária Schmidt, and a demonstration outside the institution.

Here is everything you need to know before visiting....click the link above.... - @fluffy2560
Thanks for the info.
Might check it out.
Husband has an aversion to that time but perhaps he is ready to visit.
He always says, I lived it why go see it?
RIP to all who passed. - @Marilyn Tassy
I think it's useful to be reminded of what went before.
It's a warning for the young too. People today are too keen to support fascists (and communists of that time were red fascists). It was terrorism. It's 26 years since 9/11, 80 years since WW2 and almost 40 years since the fall of the Wall. There are generations who never saw it and for whom it was too distant. Reminders are needed and those who experienced it have to tell the young 'uns warms to listen to the alarm bells of history.

It's 4K HUF for an adult so free is a very attractive offer. - @fluffy2560

Makes me think of a train ride this summer.

A young man sitting near us looked up train times for us.

He was Hungarian and my husband said something to him about the old times.

The guy said oh, yes the Russian times.

So innocent of the facts.

Husband sometimes feels like a relic from the past.

People do not remember history, some even deny the camps from WW2.

People did have to grow up fast back then.

I tried to get hubby to the horror house today, he said he would think about it.

Doubt it will happen today.

He really gets depressed about those times.

We once went to a free museum day.

They had different rooms set up for different times in Hungarian history;

He was all light and happy until we entered the room with a time clock,uniforms, aprons and such from factory days in the 50,s and 60,s era.

He almost had a panic attack!

It was too real for him.

He asked me today why do I want to see people suffer.

I do not, just interesting, he did say perhaps they have open books on people.

He is afraid still that the silly tings he and his friends did in their teens may one day catch up to him.

They really were some terrifying times if he feels this way after 60 some years on.

He said once they got busted for just sitting the wrong way on a park bench!

Sat on the back and had their feet on the seat. All got tickets.

.... Reminders are needed and those who experienced it have to tell the young 'uns warnings to listen to the alarm bells of history. - @fluffy2560

Makes me think of a train ride this summer.A young man sitting near us looked up train times for us.He was Hungarian and my husband said something to him about the old times.The guy said oh, yes the Russian times.So innocent of the facts.Husband sometimes feels like a relic from the past.People do not remember history, some even deny the camps from WW2.People did have to grow up fast back then.I tried to get hubby to the horror house today, he said he would think about it.Doubt it will happen today.He really gets depressed about those times.We once went to a free museum day.They had different rooms set up for different times in Hungarian history;He was all light and happy until we entered the room with a time clock,uniforms, aprons and such from factory days in the 50,s and 60,s era.He almost had a panic attack!It was too real for him.He asked me today why do I want to see people suffer.I do not, just interesting, he did say perhaps they have open books on people.He is afraid still that the silly tings he and his friends did in their teens may one day catch up to him.They really were some terrifying times if he feels this way after 60 some years on.He said once they got busted for just sitting the wrong way on a park bench!Sat on the back and had their feet on the seat. All got tickets. - @Marilyn Tassy

Are you sure your hubby hasn't got PTSD? 

How can you sit the wrong way on a park bench?  I can understand how they were sitting but really, didn't the authorities have better things to do?

Mrs F's grandfather was kidnapped by the Reds and held somewhere for days.   He came back shattered according to family legends.  He didn't really speak about his experiences either.  I never met him but Mrs F said it was a brutal thing. I think they roughed him up quite a bit.

Anyway,  I think we'll go to the House of Terror. I doubt we'll learn anything much.  I want the kids to come.  They have to know what it was about.

BTW, I looked up when they were going to do the interment of those soldiers' bones they found in the Duna with the motorbike.  They will be laid to rest in Budaors German/Hungarian military cemetery which is literally just down the road here.  I thought we could go and look when they do it.  Wanted to see the other side of it.  We regularly go to the Remembrance Service in Solymar Commonwealth cemetery.  That's always on the Sunday closest to  11 November (Armistice Day).  I go for recognition of my Dad's service in WW2.  I do not go for myself despite my own service 

But I've just had second thoughts.  Those Nazi buggers tried to kill my Dad.  Do they deserve to have any attention from me? 

In the trenches everyone is the same.

My father said if someone was injured they all cried for their mothers in every language.

PTSD, yes, I think anyone who has lived 79 years has some form of PTSD!

Yes, they had cops everywhere back in the day, in uniforms and undercover.

We had a guy in a trench coat, that word again, following us around at night in Budapest in 1978. We had a drink in a bar and he had a look at our passports;

Not many people could be out drinking at night back then, everyne needed to get up for work in the morning.

I stood out like a sore thumb as it was.

In the trenches everyone is the same.My father said if someone was injured they all cried for their mothers in every language.PTSD, yes, I think anyone who has lived 79 years has some form of PTSD!Yes, they had cops everywhere back in the day, in uniforms and undercover.We had a guy in a trench coat, that word again, following us around at night in Budapest in 1978. We had a drink in a bar and he had a look at our passports;Not many people could be out drinking at night back then, everyne needed to get up for work in the morning.I stood out like a sore thumb as it was. - @Marilyn Tassy

We usually can tell foreigners because of the way they dress.  I don't know about drinking in bars. 

I have had funny looks for walking around with my kids in the UK during the HU school holidays.   The UK kids have their holidays later.   I guess they thought the kids were playing truant.  It did have the advantage that UK attractions were cheaper during the HU school holidays.  If we were going to the UK, we'd always time it to be when the UK kids were in school.

I also got followed about in Romania.  Looked like 2 detectives dodging in and out of door ways.  Kept seeing them here and there.  Was the same in Russia - people in disguises in the lobby and in the lift.  Absolutely pathetic really.  What a waste of resources - I'm extremely boring so they didn't learn anything useful.  If I was a spy,  I'd be a lot better at it.

I think I'm going native.  I usually slouching around in Crocs (the rubber shoe which I love), track suit trousers or shorts and worn out T-shirts.  I've even started going to the shops barefoot (no socks) in my beloved Crocs (I've got 3 pairs!).  I have even occasionally combed my hair.  How posh.  La-de-da.

PTSD can be treated but if it's just age related, I cannot see anyone medical doing anything here about it.   

What a active day we had after all;

Was even about to head to the house of Horrors. My knee was acting up after all the running around we did so I gave it a pass; After all the work in getting hubby to agree!

He said eariler why go see people sufffer?

All good, perhaps another time this weekend?

Went from one end of town to the other doing this and that.

Just beautiful outside.

I really did stand out in 1978, had my hair permed in a stacked Bob and colored bright flaming red.

We brought 2 large suitcases of clothing each for a 6 weeks trip;

I dressed up the first week but the looks I got were too much so I dressed down.

IDK, in Vegas 20 some years ago an elderly man was working the desk in a yoga studio in a community center.

He was very nice and chatty. One day we got to talking about <Hungary. He mentioned he had worked for the CIA in his youth and had been in Budapest in a hotel. Everywhere he went, he was followed.

What a active day we had after all;Was even about to head to the house of Horrors. My knee was acting up after all the running around we did so I gave it a pass; After all the work in getting hubby to agree!He said eariler why go see people sufffer?All good, perhaps another time this weekend?Went from one end of town to the other doing this and that.Just beautiful outside.I really did stand out in 1978, had my hair permed in a stacked Bob and colored bright flaming red.We brought 2 large suitcases of clothing each for a 6 weeks trip;I dressed up the first week but the looks I got were too much so I dressed down.IDK, in Vegas 20 some years ago an elderly man was working the desk in a yoga studio in a community center.He was very nice and chatty. One day we got to talking about <Hungary. He mentioned he had worked for the CIA in his youth and had been in Budapest in a hotel. Everywhere he went, he was followed. - @Marilyn Tassy

It WAS a nice day.  Big black clouds are coming in an darkness is descending with almost 100% chance of rain.  Bit of a nuisance as I wanted to scrape paint off some wood bits for the Balaton bench I mentioned previously.

Tried to convince the kids to come to the House of Terror but not getting too much traction.  They don't seem to be impressed with it and have their own plans apparently.  I guess they are just not old enough to appreciate it all.

Mrs F and I and the kids got off a plane to Calgary and the airport bus we were picked up in was driven by  a guy who claimed to be in UK Special Forces (aka the SAS).  He said he was "in the regiment" to which I replied "Which regiment?" (thinking of my own) and he said, "SAS". 

It dismissed it as Walter Mitty situation as it would be a bit odd to be picked up by a British guy - driving a Calgary airport bus - who was formerly of the SAS.   We just went with the flow.  Never saw him again of course.

Dressing down is easy for me.  I have lots of scruffy options.  I'd even say people here are starting to be looking better dressed.  When I retire I think I'll have even less incentive to try and look presentable.  Working from home has started the rot setting in.

We went to the House of Terror and it was absolutely mobbed. 

We gave up and went to Obi and Auchan instead. Queueing around the corner.  We estimated it could have taken more than 1h to reach the front of the queue.  Too much time wasting.  We'll go another day. 

Kids didn't want to come as they'd already been - TWICE (with school trips).

(I don't know who those people are in the middle of the picture - they just walked in front of us)

We went to the House of Terror and it was absolutely mobbed.
We gave up and went to Obi and Auchan instead. Queueing around the corner. We estimated it could have taken more than 1h to reach the front of the queue. Too much time wasting. We'll go another day.

Kids didn't want to come as they'd already been - TWICE (with school trips).



(I don't know who those people are in the middle of the picture - they just walked in front of us) - @fluffy2560

I remember years ago when they had a free day. The lines were a mile long then too. We almost stood in line but sad no way. If we wanted to see it that badly we would pay to enter.

I know how my husband can get when he sees negative things.

He is so angry that they got away with killing off so many people and never paid for it.

Does not matter how many times I remind him that no one ever gets even in this life.

Have to let it go or let it eat you up.