Gál Éva: Margaret Island - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)

The café at the beginning of the 20th century

fee was abolished, but after this short interlude the practice of collecting it was restored to be permanently cancelled only after World War II.)

Let us now walk around the island—in time as well as space so far as it is possible. What this means is that while introducing Margaret Island, we will take a simultaneous time-travel to evoke what a visitor in the first and second thirds of the twentieth century could have seen here. Our reason for doing so is that great changes have occurred on the island in the twentieth century: in the course of the years and decades several new attractions have come to greet the visitor, while many others have fallen victim to the passage of time or, more drastically, to the destruction of World War II.

Those entering the island by way of the link bridge at the beginning of the century, would come up against a circular bed of flowers in the middle of which domestic

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