Spot a Budapest funicular (Sikló)
Find the wooden Castle Hill Funicular (Budavári Sikló) climbing from Clark Ádám tér to Buda Castle. Photograph the carriage.
Spot a Budapest Metro M
Find a yellow-rimmed M sign at any Budapest Metro entrance. Photograph the sign.
Spot a Budapest tram
Find a yellow Budapest tram (tram 2 along the Danube has the best views). Photograph one passing a landmark.
Spot a goulash bowl
Find a bowl of Hungarian goulash on a restaurant table or in a deli display. The paprika red is unmistakable. Photograph the bowl.
Spot a Holy Trinity column
On Castle Hill or Pest find a Baroque Holy Trinity (Szentháromság) column. Photograph the marble pillar with cherubs.
Spot a Hungarian dumpling (galuska)
Find a plate of nokedli/galuska (Hungarian egg dumplings, often with paprikás chicken or csirkepaprikás) on a restaurant table. Photograph the bumpy noodles.
Spot a Hungarian Mangalica pig
Find a Mangalica pig reference (the Hungarian wooly heritage pig): salami, postcards, butcher window, souvenir. Photograph the curly pig.
Spot a Hungarian sausage
Find a Hungarian sausage (kolbász, especially the red paprika-spiced ones) at a deli counter or street stall. Photograph the loops.
Spot a kürtőskalács chimney cake
Find a kürtőskalács cooking on a rotating spit at a street stall: a hollow sugar-glazed cylinder, often coated with walnuts or cocoa. Photograph the cylinder.
Spot a langos at a stall
Find a langos (deep-fried flatbread with sour cream, garlic and cheese) at a street stall or market. Photograph the toppings.
Spot a paprika pepper string
Find a string of red dried paprika peppers hanging in a market stall or souvenir shop window. The Central Market Hall is full of them. Photograph the cascade.
Spot a Rubik's Cube reference
Find a Rubik's Cube reference: souvenir shop window, mural, advert. Erno Rubik is Hungarian, his invention is omnipresent. Photograph the cube.
Spot a ruin bar entrance
Walk into the Jewish Quarter and find a ruin bar entrance (Szimpla Kert, Instant, Mazel Tov). The eclectic doorway is the photo. Photograph the entrance.
Spot a Sissi (Empress Elisabeth) reference
Find a Sissi reference: a portrait of Empress Elisabeth on a souvenir tin, a Sissi-themed cafe, a coffeehouse poster. Hungarians adored her. Photograph the reference.
Spot a thermal bath sign
Find a thermal bath sign (Széchenyi, Gellért, Rudas, Király). Photograph the facade or the entrance sign.
Spot a Tokaji wine bottle
Find a Tokaji Aszú wine bottle (Hungary's famous sweet wine) in a shop or restaurant. Photograph the slim bottle with the gold label.
Spot a yellow Budapest Trabant
Find a Trabant (East German two-stroke car) parked or on a Trabant Safari tour. Hungary has plenty. Photograph the plastic body.
Spot an Erzsébetváros street-art piece
Walk into the Jewish Quarter and find a piece of Hungarian street art (Neopaint Works, the Rubik's Cube mural). Photograph the wall.
Spot Buda Castle
Find Buda Castle (Budavári Palota) on Castle Hill. Photograph the long Baroque facade with the green dome.
Spot Fisherman's Bastion turrets
Walk up Castle Hill to Halászbástya (Fisherman's Bastion) and find the white seven-spired terrace overlooking the Danube. Photograph the turrets.
Spot Heroes' Square statues
Walk to Hősök tere (Heroes' Square) and find the seven Magyar chieftains on horseback. Photograph the colonnade.
Spot Margit Island reference
Find a view of Margaret Island in the Danube, or a Margit Sziget tour board, or a Margaret Bridge with the island in the middle. Photograph the green island.
Spot Matthias Church
On Castle Hill find Matthias Church (Mátyás-templom) with its colourful tiled roof. Photograph the diamond pattern of the tile roof.
Spot St. Stephen's Basilica dome
Find the dome of St. Stephen's Basilica (Szent István-bazilika) on Szent István Square. Photograph the dome over the rooftops.