Photo set: Budapest

July 16, 2009

Some photographs taken in Budapest, Hungary, where I spent a week in 2008. Click on the thumbnails below to enlarge them.

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The Night Train

November 1, 2008

The new people, places and situations that we encounter during our lives shape the way that we view the world. In late July 2008 I experienced all three at the same time, during an overnight train journey between Hungary and Ukraine in the middle of my vacation from the law firm in Kyiv where I had been working. The journey will stay in my mind for longer than the holiday itself.

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The Night Train: photos

November 1, 2008

The Chechen family who I shared a train compartment with, on the way from Budapest to Kyiv.

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