{"id":338,"date":"2009-09-15T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T16:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2009-09-15T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T16:12:32","slug":"morbid-taste-for-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/338","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Taste for Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Maria\u2019s birthday today (she\u2019s getting ancient) so she chose what to do today. She chose to visit a cemetery!! These are not even graves of people she\u2019s related to. I\u2019m getting a bit worried about her.
\nWe went to the Kerepesi cemetery where all the great and the good are buried (and the not so great and good). The monument are something to behold, I\u2019ve never seen so many weeping women, howling dogs, and cherubs anywhere else. The cemetery is enormous, I\u2019m glad I could get a lift and didn\u2019t have to walk, Maria kept moaning that what was needed was a hop on hop off bus. Mind you it was her choice that we were there. We saw the graves of some famous people, Maria went on about Kossuth Lajos, Pet\u00f6fi S\u00e1ndor, De\u00e1k Ferenc, Jokai Mor and others but it didn\u2019t mean a lot to me. I did like a couple of graves, there was one of an elderly man in his shuba (coat) with a couple of rams, I particularly liked the expression on the rams faces.
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\nMy other favourite was the grave of Blaha Lujza. She was a music hall performer and known as the \u2018nations Nightingale\u2019. Her grave is in the shape of a four poster bed on which she is lying dying, at the foot of the bed is an elderly gentleman playing a lute and the bed is surrounded by cherubs singing their hearts out. It was so over the top that it was brilliant.
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\nI could see Maria eyeing it up, I thought she wanted to be cremated.
\nI was also please to see the monument to all those who died in 1956 and since and whose last resting place is unknown.
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\nThe grave of Emil Gerbeaud reminded me how much I like his cakes and chocolate, so I suggested we visit his cukr\u00e1zda for a well earned rest.
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\nIt did mean we had to travel on the Metro and Maria did not like the escalators but the food at the end was lovely. A nice mixed plate of Hungarian sausages, cheese and salami with pickles, washed down with iced chocolate and a lovely fruit and cottage cheese slice.
\nWe\u2019ve had a bit of a rest and are now about to go out for an evening meal at Bagolyv\u00e1r restaurant. It is owned by Gundels but totally staffed by women (no idea why) and the food is supposed to be more homely than Gundel. I\u2019m looking forward to it. Claire is interested because she is trying to learn Hungarian and 2 of her lessons have been totally taken up with discussing whether to eat at Bagolyv\u00e1r or else where. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Maria\u2019s birthday today (she\u2019s getting ancient) so she chose what to do today. She chose to visit a cemetery!! These are not even graves of people she\u2019s related to. I\u2019m getting a bit worried about her. We went to the Kerepesi cemetery where all the great and the good are buried (and the not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hungary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}