A planned visit to my dentist Dr Padanyi to finish my bridge work was also an opportunity to further enjoy the varied bridge work across the flooded Danube in Budapest in June 2013.

The river was just retreating from its flood high the day before my arrival. While the main embankments were not breached, the streets alongside the Danube were under water and had been closed off by the police after a drowning a day earlier. Many cellars in building along the river were also flooded, not by water over-spilling the banks but rather by backing up in the storm water drains that usually feed into the river. In this case the water flowed the opposite direction as the river level was higher than the drain entry levels in the low lying buildings just across the road from the river banks. Which just goes to prove that normal engineering assumptions don't always work.

Many people had been visiting the river side at the peak of the floods, so police had to cordon off the river. At the peak of the flood, two of the subway/metro lines that were the underground (under river) or along the river bank were closed down as a safety precaution.

In the photo you can see one of the passenger ship gantry walkways cut off by the flooded Danube at the chain link bridge.

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The weather was pleasantly warm, being in the mid to high 20's (C not F !) and after all the rain, the skies had scattered clouds the first day but the air itself was clear, rather than hazy. Over the next three days the temperature climbed to about 30C with sunny skies, as you will see from the photos taken at Szechenyi baths.

The Varosliget park has a lake with an island in the middle with various museums and the churches. The park itself is popular with locals.

Andrassey boulevard runs from Pest to Varosliget park. It ends in the Hosok ter plaza.

Andrassay Ter

The Gellert spa and Gellert hill lie on the Buda side of the Liberty bridge. From the top of the Gellert hill at the fortress there is a nice panoramic view of the Buda hills and the Buda castle, sweeping around to the Pest side to east and the south. On the Pest side of the bridge is Fovam Ter, where the central market lies. Unfortunately the price of Hungarian salami is higher in Hungary than back in Germany! There is also an interesting new building Szabadag hld which is not yet opened when I was there.

On the pest side of the Danube is Vorosmarty Ter and Cafe New York. The fomer is one of the chic new shopping and cafe areas, while Cafe New York is further from the river and is the classic Hungarian cafe.

And finally some more images of Buda castle hill and night views from there.