One last look...

... at the Budapest opera house 

Two views of Dirk's hometown

Wurzburg, Germany

After leaving Budapest...

... we stopped at Regensburg. This blocked the view from the front of our hotel:

The Cathedral of St. Peter.

What a sight!

The parliament building at night

... With our dear friend Szidonia Majoros posing before it on one of the many bridges connecting Buda and Pest.

Horticulture

Two of the many exquisite flowerbeds maintained in the castle area.

We encountered...

... a hammer dulcimer. What an amazing sound!

Some views of the stunning St. Matthias Church

At the Budapest Holocaust Museum

A sobering moment

The universal language

The sign on the official residence of the president of Hungary

Notice the English. Here is the building.

View from the top

Four landscape views of Pest from the castle area

In the castle area of Buda

Ellen, Szidonia, and Isaac in front of the Hungarian National Gallery

A fantastic horse

The crow and the ring above a wrought iron gate

An amazing fountain

... with four visitors!

With Constance Fee

... at the Alexandra

Back in Budapest

The gang is here for an evening in Budapest!

Farewell to Crescendo

Ellen with friends 

The Synagogue in Tokaj

Beautiful building, wonderful acpistics for Cresvendo concerts. But there are no Jews in Tokaj.

The nerve center

Volunteers at the Crescendo office.

Lovely in the morning

Another beautiful song at Tune-in from Simone and friends.

Sunflowers...

... are a major crop here.

We were warned!

They know us here in Tokaj

Kafe Crescendo!

Ellen with...

... Rudolf Heigy and his wife Elizabeth, after Tune-in where Rudolf spoke.

All Bach concert tonight

After Brandenburg Concerto #3

After Cantata 82a

After Brandenburg Concerto #5

And after Cantata #84

Kristin Ditlow-Yuan...

.. performing the cadenza from Bradenberg 5 at Marcel Zwitser's brilliant lecture on Bach's years at Cothen.

Our leaders

Here are Beat Rink

and his wife Aire at Tune-in

Seven kings or saints or something

I saw these statues in a little park near Tokaj.

Also stork Zarathustra

Bodrog river

Near Tokaj. Two views:

Stunning beauty

We also saw this winery and adjacent vineyard:

 

More rural Hungary

As we approached Tokaj, we saw this town, Tarcal.