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It must have been the pörkölt (the stew) since that was the only thing we'd both eaten, but the early morning was "quite lively", shall we say, with many dashes to the toilet.
There is a regular Sunday farmer's market in Szimpla Kert, the ruin bar, and coming up on midday we both felt well enough to go. Anyway, it was close enough to rush home if the need arose. Grace bought some honey and stuff.
The guidebooks said the market had a lunch buffet, but it didn't and we had to find somewhere else, which turned out to be an eggs benedict cafe on the edge of the Gozsdu Udvar complex (we never did get back for an evening session). The cafe sign said Blue Bird, which also applies to several other venues in the complex, including a karaoke bar.
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| Szimpla Kert. | Szimpla artwork. | Toilet for mermaids. | Farmers' market today. |
Then we went straight to the great Synagogue on Dohány Utca. It's the largest in Europe, and formed the core of the Holocaust ghetto in Budapest.
When the Nazis occupied Hungary in 1944, they and their Hungarian aliies forced 70,000 Jewish Hungarians into a small set of streets around the Synagogue. About 10,000 died of starvation and exposure before the Red Army liberated the Ghetto in January 1945.
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| Holocaust memorial wall. | The great Synagogue. | Holocaust cemetery and garden. | Holocaust memorial. |
After visiting the Synagogue, the memorial park and museum, my "digestive" problems began to return and we had to cut short our activities for the rest of the day.