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Each year Ráday street awaits the public, that is susceptible to culture and is willing to spend its free time in a top class environment. From April to October in the course of “Ráday cult street” about eight fetsivals are organised here. From among the mentioned festivals the following are the most popular: International Poetry Festival, Plein-Art Contemporary Art Festival, Reformed Music Festival, Summer Games in Ferencváros, Ferenc Day Fair. Besides this three galleries, a Bible museum and the previously mentioned library awaits the art lovers.

No matter if we end up in Ráday street in the morning or at night, it is never deserted; there are always some people sitting at the cafés or restaurants and their terraces. Among many others it is due to the some 14 cafés that can be found here. Ráday street can be devided into two strikingly detaching parts; the boundary is Bakáts Square. The Saint Ferenc Catholic Church can also be found here. Heading towards Boráros Square from here the view is slightly less attractive; it is the other side, the one towards Kálvin Square is the actual pedestrian precinct. Most cafés are found here: the starting point is Jaffa Café, and the line of cafés ends with a retro bar called Cha-cha-cha that is found in the subway at Kálvin Square.

Because of it being much frequented the government of Ferencváros – the building of which is also situated here – is consistently working on transforming Ráday Street into a solely pedestrian precinct. Today cars can still run along the street in one direction, however the traffic is kept reduced so that the people visiting this place can have fun and relax undisturbed.

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I gave a lecture about panoramic photography. I was invited to give a workshop at the
Urban 3D Modelling International Summer School. The study area was the historical town
center of Székesfehérvár (Alba Regia), the town where Hungarian kings were crowned.
During the summer school students could take part in keynote lectures, practical hands-on
exercises and fieldwork.

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For more info about the Summer School visit it’s website at http://www.geo.info.hu/urban3d/

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The first wine-cellar visit was made as we passed our first semester
at the Szent Istvan University. We’ve made a bet, that if we pass all our
exams than we will go and drink some wine in the Valley in Eger. That all
happened in february 2005. From that time we’ve never missed an occasion
and have visited that place in every year. The company is changing from
year to year, but there are constant members like me, Daniel Kadar or
Balazs Balint Szabo.

“Germol” aka Daniel Kadar and “BB” aka Balazs Balint Szabo

And now some words about the “Szépasszony völgy”, about the
“Valley of Beautiful Women”:

The Szépasszony Valley is the largest area of wine cellars in Eger.
Many legends are linked to the development of its name. According
to Bakó Ferenc /1843/ The Szépasszony which means the Beautiful
Woman used to be one of the goddesses of the ancient religion, she
was similar to Venus, the goddess of love.

According to another explanation there used to live a really beautiful
woman close to the Valley. The area of the Valley was called Koháry
Valley in the first quarter of the 19th century. Koháry István vice
general participated in the relief of the Eger Castle in 1687.

On the basis of the archives data the origin of its name cannot be
clearly ascertained, neither can be the date of the building of the first
cellars in the Valley. What is certain is that the building of the Öregsor
started in 1774 with the permission of the bishop and the landowner.
In consequence of Archbishop Barkóczy’s economic policy, there was
a boom in wine producing, wine market as formed, so the establishment
of places for storage was necessary.

In 1781 there were 32 wine cellars. In the last century the reputation
of the Eger wine has been related to the Szépasszony Valley where
150 cellars can be found. Today’s group of cellars of the Valley was
built after the land reform after the Second World War. These cellars
were scooped out from riolit tufa because it can be easily formed and
wine can be held on 10-15 Celsius degrees in it.

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In front of us, there is the gepesz Aula, a large hall of the engineers.
It is built by the plans of Emil Zöldy. The original building has
very wide stairs, and it was never fully utilized.
So came the idea to re-design these stairs and build a more
modern version of it.

Gabor Reischl, another famous hungarian architect re-planned
the stairs, so now it has a large multi-level “stair system”.

At the left side of the aula, a bit closer there is also a large ear-shaped
monument from the 70s. It is probably made of copper, as it has
a fair green color now because of oxidation.
(At the panorama we can see it very dark, due to shadow, fungus and moss.)

When you turn around, at the other end of these stairs it is the sports hall,
where all those sweaty physical education are held.
There can be played ping-pong, football (soccer) or basketball.
Women can also have yoga- or karate-lessons.
Or if you would like, you can ride a horse at the nearest ranch
in place of gym.

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Altough it has a location very easy to reach,
many students choose to go to school by car.
Some think that they need to exercise as they only
have a fresh driving license. The others are enjoying
their very own first car. And at not the least,
there are many girls and boys who find it appealing for the other
sex to come to school by car. So it is very common to see this big
parking lot so full, particularly at spring and autumn.

Many travel by car, but there is a large number of students who
utilize the vehicles of public transportation. The university is
easily reachable by train, buses or with the suburban railway.
And as you can see, there are some people who come to school
with the most-effective vehicle, with bicycle.

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It was an auction and exhibition of oldtimers, old parts of cars, and other documents related to oldtimers. More than 400 items sold, among others specialities like the Pannonia MC68 cross motorbike, and the legendary twin-cylinder speed motorbike, the Pannonia P20M.
The first Oldtimer auction was held in year 2000, since then there are more visitors and bidders in every year.

I’ve reached the end of the auction, arrived almost at 5pm (at closig time), so I only had time for one panorama. The most of the cars were disappeared by that time.

The cars in the panorama (from left to right:)

• Ford Model A
• Rolls Royce
• Buick Eight
• Unknown
• Ford Model T
• Cadillac Fleetwood

Ford Model A

Rolls Royce

Buick 8 Front

Me and a Buick 8

The “unknown” model

Cadillac Fleetwood and its bidders

Cadillac Fleetwood

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The Volkswagen Eurovan (US, Brazil and Mexico) or Transporter (UK, Ireland, Australia, and North Europe) was the first front-engined van produced by German automaker Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and is the successor of the Volkswagen Type 2 van. It is built on the Volkswagen T platform.

The T platform is Volkswagen Group’s van platform, and has been used for the Volkswagen Transporter range for over 55 years. Though not technically a platform until recently (enthusiasts retroactively named the T1-T3), it is still an official VW platform.

The fifth generation of the VW Transporter hit the market in Europe late in 2003. It’s a direct successor to the T4 in its looks and utility value, unlike the Microbus concept car that VW had been showing around several years prior to the T5′s introduction. The Microbus concept was almost produced, but Volkswagen scuttled plans for building it due to cost problems.

The T5 Transporter is not available in the United States and Canada in any form. Instead, Volkswagen is working with DaimlerChrysler to create a minivan specifically for the North American market. VW’s version of this van should be out by 2008.