Baja is on the Danube in the far south of Hungary. I had already taught here in 1980 and it had become my favourite town in the country. My accommodation was in a small holiday home belonging to the furniture factory whose employees I taught, and was on a small island in the Sugovica river.
Baja
"...Four hours later, as the shadows were beginning to lengthen, the train clanked across the expansive bridge over one of the widest stretches of the Danube, and into Baja... I walked, passing through the lovely cobbled main square of imposing, early nineteenth-century buildings of great architectural beauty, and on to the footbridge crossing over to the island.
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Sometimes, in the afternoons, I sat on the terrace and looked over to the canoeists and the small ferryboat with its oarsman waiting to take passengers to the next island downstream...."
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