Yesterday I went out on a fieldtrip. All the way out to the XVII district. In Budapest the city is divided into 23 districts. Starting with # 1 in the city center and numbered clockwise in wider circles. Anyway, I went out to check out the Jewish Cemetary. It was a nice sunny but chilly day with snow to expect.

After 35 minutes tram ride I finally arrived. I had no clue where to go, but quickly found the entrance. Unfortunately there was no map so I just started to walk into the cemetary. I had read somewhere that there is around 300 000 graves at the cemetary. I guess that number also includes all the small compartments that holds only ashes.

Beside being huge and a never ending cemetary there where so many things that caught my eyes. Old graves. New white marble graves that most have costed a fortune, small wooden crosses. Big family graves. I walked around for 1 1/2 hour then it started to snow and I was starting to get chills by being where I was.I found it particularly interesting to see how people had made the graves ready for the winter, and I guess when a family spends so much money on it of course you would like it to be clean and be able to stand the winter. But hey, it’s stone. Another interesting thing is how they use white marble and that we in Sweden prefer to use black, grey or red granite.

When it’s time for me to leave I will have a white tombstone. With a cat sleeping on top of it with it’s legs hanging down the side of the stone.

So it will be a fun and happy stone instead of a black and conservative, boring stone.