It was grey today

I spent some of today walking around the city solo. I strolled across the famous Chain Bridge, along the Danube Promenade, and past the front facade of Parliament. It was good to be in Budapest today and this weekend.

The shoes on the Danube Promenade stand as a memorial to the Hungarian Jews who were shot into the Danube by the Arrow Cross militiamen in 1945. The victims left their shoes on the bank as they fell into the water.  The memorial was another reminder to me of how much the Holocaust is part of this place, like a wound that is still healing, certain to leave a scar.