CERN, Amsterdam and Budapest I take a solo trip to Amsterdam, and we visit Budapest, and experience record floods of the Danube in Budapest.
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We did an orienteering course that took us all over the grounds | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-02-2013/gallery_img_0635.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-03-2013/gallery_img_5409.jpg) | Coming home from dinner in old town | | I took a 2 day trip to Amsterdam completely on my own. A few pictues from the Rijksmuseum - lots of famous paintings there. This is a dollhouse from, believe it or not, 1676 |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-03-2013/gallery_img_5417.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-03-2013/gallery_img_5418.jpg) | | | Cute windshield for kids on bike |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-03-2013/gallery_img_5419.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-03-2013/gallery_img_5421.jpg) | I liked these postcards - nice patterns | | On my way to the Quantified Self meeting |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-03-2013/gallery_img_5425.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-03-2013/gallery_img_5424.jpg) | The meeting was held in a facility that also has some ongoing art projects | | The kids would have loved this huge swing |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5429.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5430.jpg) | On the ferry, headed north of Amsterdam. I rented a bike, and had a lovely ride | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5457.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5460.jpg) | Self-portrait | | Lots of dikes |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5464.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5466.jpg) | There was a separate bike path on most roads. | | In the town of Holysloot |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5472.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5473.jpg) | I believe this is in Ransdorp | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5481.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5489.jpg) | | | On the way to Broek in Waterland - houseboats along the dike |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5491.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-04-2013/gallery_img_5501.jpg) | Each with their own individual cable crossing | | Headed back to Geneva |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5503.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5512.jpg) | In Budapest - we managed to hit the weekend where the highest flood, EVER, was predicted to peak in Budapest. We, along with the rest of Budapest, indulged in a lot of "flood tourism". | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5509.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5515.jpg) | The Parlimen building is normally quite a bit higher up from the river! | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5517.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_0643.jpg) | The metro tunnel was very well protected | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5524.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5526.jpg) | | | I thought this milk packaging was neat - it's all a plastic bag, but there's actually a handle for pouring, made by inflating a little closed tube on the side |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5529.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5539.jpg) | | | A very fancy McDonalds at the Budapest train station Hero's square, from a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5557.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5555.jpg) | At castle Hill | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5559.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_mvi_5580.jpg) | The changing of the guard | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5592.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5606.jpg) | | | We're about to have a real thunderstorm here |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5616.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5629.jpg) | | | We hopped out of the taxi that was taking us back to our hotel, because we could walk faster |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5633.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5637.jpg) | Water, bubbling up from cracks in the street | | Extra sandbags reinforcing the defences of the Metro station |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5649.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5656.jpg) | After this, the river area was blocked off | | The parking garage of our hotel |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_0684.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_0687.jpg) | Water is beginning to seep through | | I learned online that these heavy buses and trucks were brought in to keep the subway tunnel underneath from rising up - never would have guessed that! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_0710.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5661.jpg) | The road is getting pretty seriously wet from seepage here | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5676.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5685.jpg) | Filling sandbags | | Strange one-person benches in Budapest |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5713.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_0715.jpg) | Hero's square | | At the Szechenyi thermal bath - nicely warmed to 34 degrees - just perfect |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5726.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5741.jpg) | | | The staff of one of the hop-on, hop-off tour buses helping with sandbags |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5752.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5754.jpg) | Taking the tram to the Children's Railway in Budapest | | ...up a cogwheel track |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5762.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5766.jpg) | ... and onto the Children's Railway, where kids ages 10 to 14 sell tickets, check tickets, and fulfill various other duties | | Apparently it was once run by the Young Pioneers, a communist youth group |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5778.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5781.jpg) | We tried to find the ruins of a medieval monastery, but had no luck as the signs were very obscure and I can't make head or tails out of Hungarian. | | Peter took a picture of me with some flowers he picked |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5794.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5804.jpg) | On the Erzsebet lookout tower. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5805.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_0728.jpg) | A monster beetle | | A fancy Hungarian restuarant for Eric's birthday dinner |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/06-08-2013-budapest/gallery_img_5818.jpg) | | | This section of sandbags had buttresses for extra strength | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |