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We seem to spend several hours in Harrod's pet department, where everything money can buy, can be bought...including a doggie four-poster bed....</div>
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every kind of thing to eat, from crafish, to Halloween marshmallow ghosts, </div>
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to 'spyware', including surveillance cameras and bullet-proof vests. No camels or lions in sight, however; it is rumoured one can no longer buy them here.</div>
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Before crossing the border....good Goulash soup [the best!]. A foretaste of things to come. </div>
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The border guard took all our passports and disappeared into his office for at least half an hour. When Istvan our driver handed him the paperwork, he said the bus was full of AUstralians. "What?", said the officer, "<i>All</i> of them???"</div>
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Wherever we arrived, we were given the 'best room'. This is in Ildiko's house.</div>
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In Ildiko's kitchen.</div>
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This is the exterior of a house in a Romanian village. The door is to the cellar where the father of the house did his carvings. </div>
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These sculptures were carved by this lovely woman's father, who started carving after returning, wounded, from war. She tells me he was a 'silent' man, but clearly, from the love in her eyes, he also was a very loving one. He did all these carvings 'from his head', ie from his imagination, no pre-drawing, no research. I particularly love the faces carved for the 'harrowing of hell', 3 pictures down.</div>
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A very very old church--12th century, I think. During the Reformation period [early C20th], most catholic church walls were whitewashed. Ironically, this helped preserve many of the frescoes from damage during the travails throughout the century. Restoration work is very slow. One of the few times I've wished I were a millionaire, to be able to throw money at the restoration projects.<br />
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Today was very very cold, probably not more than 8 degrees, after 28-degree days for the previous 2 weeks. It's the very day we head out to the goat/sheep farm for a spot of cheese-making...<br />
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As you can see, Gina [far right] is as cold as I am. After a morning of begging, borrowing and swapping warmer clothes, we seem to get by. Her nose finally turns back from deep purple to skin tone. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">A. laughs when the concierge leaps over his counter to tell the children to be quiet. He is already marked as a curiosity: at breakfast, the attendant told him off for being barefoot in the room. We have had shopkeepers hand us cloth and window cleaning fluid when Ruby touched the bakery glass in excitement, or ordered her to put down an ornament she was examining at a counter. Another went off in a huff when Ruby took a bit of time over choosing a macaroon. Either there is an issue with children <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per se</i>…or just with the way that children become so titillated with excitement that they disorder time, space and sound. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Our families walk together towards the Pompidou. As we pass Notre Dame, with its limestone saints casting their benevolence and the daemons threatening caution, A. relates seeing a smart car execute a 50-point park in a quarter-size space, its bumper smacking the cars in front and behind each manouvre. Jacques Tati alive and well in Paris. A woman just ahead of us steps out onto a pedestrian crossing against a red light, right in front of a policeman on his bike. I wonder if I see a smirk on the policeman’s face, just visible beneath his helmet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">As we continue to talk about our favourite Tati films, a little smart car smashes into the side of a very big tourist bus. Or possibly [more probably], the other way ‘round. The car is like a crumpled ball glued to the side of an oblong. The man wedged in the car is furious, pummeling his horn. I dont’ think the driver of the bus even sees him for a few minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">dolls gone mad. A whip elevator takes one to the top level, which affords one of the great views of the Parisian skyline. Standing on the new, a panorama of the old spread before us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We did, however, climb the Duomo, suffering the vertigo of those stairs, that view; photographing the breasts and beastly buttocks of the dome from close-range, the children averting their eyes from the bestialities close enough to brush their eyebrows. The daemon eating a man is truly spectacular, the dragon is fierce and blood thirsty. What a vision! What a control of perspective! And what a thing to remember that all of these paintings were meant to be viewed from the ground—so far away, a [k]night’s ride on horseback away, from the dome. </div>
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Still, this is the city where hundreds of padlocks are clamped along bridge railings, sealing lovers’ trysts, promises of steel bounded with a locksmith’s fortitude, an almost Japanese fetish to the intensity of the practice, not a hairs’ breath of space left on some bridge rails, this city’s promises are full and fulfilled into the future, stronger than the crumbling stoneware bridges themselves, as [com]pacted as the cobblestones.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Our concierge is charming and effusive and I think this is her ‘black market’ job, She sneaks away from ‘work’ to meet us and give us the key. She tells us where is good to eat, to watch for the unpredictable traffic, and is of the opinion that the only way out of Italy’s present troubles is war. “We need a war’ she says, beautifully, with a deep scowl, her long plait shaking with the frustration burning in her body. Perhaps this is decades, generations of anger speaking. But always, she remains charming. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Our rooms are spacious and airy, the beds vast, the walls a wonderful worn patina and we could have slipped back centuries. The guest book entries all complain about the level of invasive noise from the street--from cafes until 4am through to garbage trucks every morning at 6--but over the days we are here I actually like it. I like the endless layers of human exchange throughout the night. In a curious way my heart feels held. Here in Florence, ensconced behind thick patterned curtains shielding the window alcoves, with the buzz of waiters, diners and drunks, cutlery clashing and hurtling outside in the sleepless cafes, I feel a part of the centuries of human endeavour and achievement and exchange, It seems to me as full and rich as what I have heard, on my own, immersed in the Australian bush. I never feel alone in the bush <i>per se</i>, whereas I realise that in Canberra’s suburbia—neither bush, nor big city-- the loneliness aches like a rheumatic chill. </span></div>
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The Medici Chapel [Architect and designer: Michelangelo] -- A Mannerist icon, the 16th century Medici in strife; its sealed windows indicative of a corroded power, looking in on itself pondering its weakened position in the world. Even more startling in the flesh than i ever imagined. The chapel sits in one wing off the coolly-ordered Note the orange tree in the centre of the courtyard: whilst we were there, a single ladder was propped against its trunk, its height disappearing up into its lush leaves. Occasionally a branch would fall from its canopy. One woman in tight clothing was yelling instructions from beneath the portico towards the tree. We realised it was being trimmed, the woman playing "artists' eye" guiding the clipping of the tree from a distance. </div>
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The portico of the Uffizi is so very strange. A gaggle of stone gods has been pushed beneath this portico, a classical inventory perched on pillars too high to view them well from close range. From a middle distance, one could be looking at a coop of tall marble chickens, tethered within invisible walls. There is a gracelessness in the way they are clustered, half-facing each other, almost as awful as deciding to put a group of disabled people together because they share ‘disability’ in common. </div>
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A copy of David stands in the Uffizi court, just away from the portico. Again, it is very oddly placed. It is impressive but not quite right. We say to the children, who are already tired of visiting museums, that we have to see the original. The groan comes from deep within their entrails, but as parents often find we have to do, we know we are taking them on a journey that transcends this moment, their tiredness, and all our opinions combined. </div>
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Ordered, ornate, pristine, elegant, Vienna is a city of fine tailoring, elegant watches, and sculptured shoes. The coffee is strong, smooth annd sweet; its building surfaces relentlessly decorated. I feel conscious of age--the age and history of this city--and of my ageing: as my feet ache, eyes swell, and body sags with days of jet lag, I feel unusual stirrings of an inner anxiety about my imperfections. My identity--Australian? European?--feels strangely uncertain, as if the stays of my corsets have been unfastened. Something strays loose--unnerving in a city which has very little looseness to it. But then again, this is the city where Freud began to treat and validate neuroses, so perhaps I am hearing its own anxious whisperings. <br />
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We visit the palace, where the young Empress Sisi, married at 15, was so unhappy. I feel nauseated as we walk through museum room after room after room stuffed with porcelains, crystals, and gilt table settings. I feel a revolutionary fervour and am almost glad things are behind glass. I feel I couuld upend it all and send most of it crashing through the enormous windows. But moving into the palace proper [its walls relentlessly ornamented] and seeing where Sisi used to take her meals, so often on her own, one senses how intensely lonely a life it must have been. Kept away from her own children, suffering a cruelly overbearing mother in law and a husband focussed on affairs of State, Sisi became an eccentric anorexic, who almost couldn't bear to stay at home. Ironic for someone who stood up for Hungarian democractic independence from the Austrian crown, Sisi was knifed by an italian anarchist, whilst traveling incognito in one of her 'escape zones'. <br />
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In the Palace, I recognize in my self a feeling of both admiration and horror. Its enormous spaces--the vastness of the rooms, the panoramic vistas of the gardens, the crowning of each architectural feature with statuary, both religious and mythological... . Each vista is meant to reflect the royal Self as majestic, god-like. Yet in this place, there is so much space that in fact there is very little space at all.<br />
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I think of Sisi's haven, the antechamber to her bathroom, its walls completely painted over with images of peacocks strutting in a lush garden. Even the door out has a false [and taller] facade. Able to command her servants to cater to her rebellious caprices [sometimes her only foods were broth and ice-cream, for weeks at a time], the room is perhaps her theatre set, from where perhaps she felt she never had to leave.<br />
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It strikes me that to be free to move forward, one has to be free to move back, free in relation to one's history. I feel as if I have been holding my breath, not able to see or smell my ancestors' past, yet have been expected to move into and 'fulfill' an ambiguous future.<br />
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Amongst the vast number of classical statuary here, there is one example of a 'tripping stone' [or act of post World War II self-consciousness] that we come across: it is a large monument, rough-hewn from a twice-lifesize marble block which is split in two as if by a violent force. Several figures half-emerge from it, but oddly so. This is not an individual's fight against these forces, as with a Michelangelo, but a struggle with forces larger than one, a struggle for any to have a choice at all. There are knees, a limb, a pregnant belly emerges; each is headless. On the reverse side appear a gas mask and a skull. This is a memorial to an event which perhaps this city would rather forget....<br />
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We catch a fast train from Vienna to Budapest, speeding past country villages, fields of corn, and rich dark ploughed soil. The green is iridescent. There is a rhythm to the forests--the space between the leaves-- I think I understand. I now feel how hard it was for my mother to meet the Australian grey-green, the twisted mangrove roots, the lack of close juicy greens from when she emigrated. We can tell we are at the Hungarian border when the announcements switch to Hungarian as the first language. Tim rather sweetly gets up from his seat and gives me a welcome kiss 'home'.<br />
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The radio voice announces, proudly, that rather 'delicious refreshments' are available from the food cart. The train has a children's corner, with a Disney cartoon playing on a screen. It provides a musical chatter within the carriage. <br />
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The man across the aisle from me is almost permanently hooked up to his mobile, pushing at the machine and prodding the people he rings throughout the journey's two hours. He is covered in tattoos, there is almost no skin left vacant on his arms. He is almost as relentlessly decorated as are the buildings in Vienna. <br />
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On our first day in the streets of Budapest, i notice how different is the rhythm of the buildings to Vienna. A soothing proportion to the architeccture. And I feel deep remorse when I see the exquiaite statuary: male andd female figures flanking doorways, protecting architraves; there are so many, and each so exquisitely crafted, more earthy than the ones in Vienna. This was the everyday context from which my father drew his art. Art everywhere, art imbued in everyday, everywhere one walks, the sculptural dimension a constant. Even thhe post office building is flanked with a pieta. The walls seem made of honey and ivory. <br />
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<i>"Traces of bullets have been found in the skeletons dredged from the bottom of the Danube during the reconstruction of Margit bridge in July. Forensic tests apparently suggest that the remains could have belonged to as many as 20 people, while evidence of gunfire was detected on five or six of them. With fragments of clothing suggesting the bodies date from the early to mid 1940s, it appears increasingly likely that the remains are of Jewish holocaust victims. </i><i> Thousands were shot into or merely pushed into the river during the latter stages of WWII, when Hungary was under the control of the Fascist Hungarian Arrow Cross, installed in power after Nazi Germany invaded. Another theory is that the bodies belong to victims who plunged to their deaths when the bridge unexpectedly exploded during rush hour on 4 November 1944, taking some 400 civilians and 40 german soldiers with it. Margit bridge had been rigged by German sappers, although the cause of the premature detonation is uncertain."</i></blockquote>
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I walk along the Danube in the searing heat. The sun is to my left. The concrete path is separated from a long line of elegant flat-houses by a bitumen roadway. Trees provide intermittent shade, resting places dot the side of the path; from this angle, the impressive Parliament does not so much loom as suggest its way into view, a reminder of its democratic elegance. In the near distance, I think I see a squall of crows, as if dead on the footpath, leathery and desiccated in the sun, on the edge off the river. As I approach however I recognise they are what I have made a special trip here to see: it is the memorial to Holocaust victims, a line of bronze shoes, decayed [rusting] as if dredged from the water.<br />
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The sculpture is full of ambiguities. The shoes all face out to the water--in pairs, except for a few, of which there i sonly one of the pair; the toe of one man's boot teeters over the edge, but the rest seem almost ordered, casually in line. <br />
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One imagines that the victims commemorated here would have been facing, or struggling against, their murderers, yet there are no signs of struggle in these shoes. The curious effect is that they seem almost hopeful, as if looking out onto a future different from what they have suffered--ghosts returning to tell their story to receptive listeners, like Hamlet's father in full voice, alive enough to tell his story and give warning to beware. One cannot miss these shoes by the riverside yet the road ramparts conceal their view from the flat houses behind, and certainly from the city beyond.<br />
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It is a subtle monument to invisible histories.<br />
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There is a wonderful perversity to the Hungarian temperament. Perhaps this is something of what Sisi admired. Both children are taken by the boat-bus which ferries tourists along the Danube.<br />
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The bus is amphibious--practical, but how perverse! A great optical illusion. Ruby later shows the photo to her classmates who all titter in surprise. For some reason it reminds me of its reputation as the breeding ground of the creators of the most malicious but most engenious computer viruses created in the 1980s. It also reminded me of a few cousins and aunts....but perhaps that's enough of that for now..<br />
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At other times it strikes me as a playful, but saddened city, with its rhythmically-responsive, musical fountains and accessible city play-spaces, but a chaotic financial situation triggered by the Euro economic debacle. Many thousands owe four times their original housing loans, taken out with Swiss banks before the forint tumbled 18 months ago. A young market-stall holder who in her day job is a pre-school teacher tells me of how many of her friends feel they have to leave the country in order to have hope for their future. She herself feels the children she teaches <i>are</i> the hope, so she is planning to stay.<br />
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We take a day trip to Lake Balaton, the central Hungarian lake resort, summer mecca for centuries of holiday-makers. My parents and grandparents both used to spend whole summers there, my father sailing on its smooth waters. Sandor never even attempted to sail on Sydney Harbour once he'd emigrated; I can imagine his lean, well-trained athlete's instinct's failing him in a Sydney squall. He never trusted he could read the waters here.<br />
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I took the trip as a ritual homage to my ancestors. Tim drove the hour's journey. The steering wheel in on the left hand side; it was several weeks before I reconfigured my vision and not expereince surprise that cars here seemed to be empty in the drivers' seat, and somehow driving themselves.<br />
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Along the long, flat, two land highway, we passed road signs such as you might expect anywhere: speed signs; towns ahead. I would have expected the silhouette of an antelope telling us to beware of what might run onto the road. But no, there was only a sign indicating 'dog'. Yes, "dog'. <i>Dog? </i>Twice.<br />
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As we neared the resort areas, there was another sign. In Australia, a swimming area is usually designated by the silhouette of a person doing the Australian crawl [freestyle, one arm and shoulder rising over the head and upper body of the swimmer]. Signs here indicated <i>head above water.</i> Sure enough, once at the Balaton, we observed many heads-above-water, bobbing above the shallow silty lakebed, at a short distance from the shore, gossiping.<br />
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We visited the Hungarian State Library yesterday. I grew up with stories of my grandfather running the place, surviving the war, feeling gratitude [as did most Hungarians] to the Russian liberators, but horrified to find a Soviet General sitting in his seat one morning in 1946. Then the penny dropped. This is a take-over, not a liberation...<br />
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I approach the front desk, Tim and the kids just behind, and explain I am his granddaughter, I would like to go in. The man at the desk is very gracious and, after checking my passport, gives me a free ticket, giving me acccess to many parts of the library closed to the general public--including my husband and children. Tim and the kids see the beautiful downstairs display then eat Schnitzel in the cafe.<br />
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It is definitely a hush-hush library, so I am glad I don't have the kids with me, disturbing the peace with their wonderful, intelligent but audacious <i>joie de vivre, </i>as I walk the corridors.<br />
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There is a plaque listing former Directors in the hall. My grandfather's name is not there!!! The man at the desk notes this when I shake his hand goodbye. He has been looking it up on the computer. I mumble something lame such as 'perhaps he was the Deputy?' We agree, tacitly, not to pursue it further at this moment, both in deference to my faulty Hungarian and possibly, too, to the fact that I may well look genuinely ashamed.<br />
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Have I just pulled off a significant act of fraud??<br />
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It is a few weeks later in England, reconnecting with my brother, that I confirm what I suspected. It was <i>another </i>library [how many State Libraries can there be in one city??]--the Budapest City State Library, where my grandfather was indeed Director. M<i>ea culpa, </i>Szentkuty Pal!<br />
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