Familiar Turf

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

T.S. Elliot

A long sleep and coffee to start the day.

There are 15 bridges crossing the Danube linking Buda to Pest. Shell asks me to take her to the bridge. I choose the nearest. The odds were against me, and sure enough, this was not the bridge she had in mind. Obviously she meant the Széchenyi lánchíd.

It is early, the sky is a perfect Budapest blue, and there are no crowds. We take the incorrect Margit híd over to Buda and have coffee and breakfast at Zërgë Coffeeshop.

We head home via Széchenyi lánchíd, and all is forgiven concerning bridge choice.

As we consider a longer stay in Korea, I have been doing some research on what might be the best option for our apartment sound system. Shell has put the brakes on a McIntosh vacuum tube amplifier package into a pair of Sonus speakers, and I appreciate this might be slight overkill.

Comprise sits with a pair of Apple HomePods set up as left and right stereo speakers. We get the benefit of a decent set of speakers and the cool integration of another Apple product in the ecosystem.

Oddly, they are very hard to find. We head to a nearby Apple store to see if we might get lucky.

We don’t.

Home for a few hours before some lunch.

Lunch at Osho.

Last day tomorrow.