I can't believe that 10 days have just sped by... it seemed like only yesterday that I put together a few goals for December
... just.like.that and we're nearly halfway through the month and I've been busy.
There was me getting over my flu. It's now, much, much better but I still have a cough that makes me sound like a ten-pack-a-dayer.
There has been plenty of work deadlines.
There were christmas parties to attend. I really limited myself, because with my sore throat and coughing I'm not all that good at shouting over the noise and usually lost my voice after an hour.
Finally, there was a long weekend spent here.
Knitting thoughts kept popping up while visiting Mátyás Templom. Sadly, we arrived whilst they were in the mist of a big renovation project. No doubt once completed, it would even be more majestic. The interior is sumptiously painted throughout. St Mátyás is such a spectacular church.
Scaffolding everywhere ...
and tiles removed off every part of the roof.
The Hungarian language belong to the Ugrian group of the Finno-Ugrian language family and it's very different from the romance languages. I usually manage to learn a few phrases whenever a visit a new country, but honestly, the only words that I managed to understand in the 4 days that I was there are nyitva (open), zárva (closed) and szombat (saturday). Why? because just about every museum is closed on monday... and I swore that I heard wombat more than once but the closest word that I could find in my guidebook was szombat.
Posted by atu at December 12, 2007 11:15 PM | TrackBackIf you need some other words in Hungarian, I can help you! :-)
Üdvözlettel Budapestről (Greetings from Budapest):
Zita
I love travelling vicariously through your blog. Stunning pics!
Posted by: Ling at December 15, 2007 10:53 PMMy husband and I are convinced that scaffolding is the 'national tree' of England. When we were there, it was EVERYWHERE.
Posted by: Marsha at December 14, 2007 04:44 PMI love it! Mitered squares and stranded colorwork in tiles, beautiful! I'm glad you are feeling better and able to travel.
Posted by: Wanda at December 14, 2007 03:14 AMmmmh...I remember that close to that mitred squares'd roof, there was a great patisserie : made some great sweet luncheons over there. sampling the whole range of the available patisserie was as good a goal as to study some other things ;-))
the only words I remember are Noi and Ferfi, one meaning Ladies, the other Gents, and it is on all the toilets. But of course, I do not remember which is which :-D
How wonderful to live in a place so inspiring. I hope we will see some church colorwork sweaters in the future!
Posted by: Peggy at December 13, 2007 04:39 PMMy goodness look at that roof! It's simply beautiful. I'm sure it will be even more so once its finished. It's December, don't be too hard on yourself if you don't finish your goals.
Posted by: Tracey at December 13, 2007 03:31 PMThe building is stunning, but that roof - OMG - takes one's breath away. It's simply gorgeous!
Posted by: Anne at December 13, 2007 01:19 PMI can see why the roof reminded you of knitting....it also looks very cold...
Posted by: Jill at December 13, 2007 09:04 AMVery inspirational! That roof looks like a great intarsia vest pattern..!
Posted by: Steph at December 13, 2007 07:52 AM