Perhaps this should be in another thread, but as the Titanic is mentioned here I decided to say here
we were in Budapest some years ago having a meal in a nice restaurant. On our way out one of the lads saw a grand piano in the foyer and went up to it, sat down, and started to play. Here we were, rufty, tufty bikers, and one of us can tinkle the ivories. Not only could he play, but he could properly play. Good enough that we stayed there for a long time gathering a crowd listening to him. Of course expected to get chucked out but instead he got a round of applause.
Anyway, the reason for this recollection of mine - on the top of the piano was a notice in German and Hungarian - no it didn’t say to keep off - and getting it translated it stated that this piano had been destined for use on the Titanic, but missed the boat in reality, and ended up in a warehouse prior to the initial launch and subsequent movie.
it’s interesting getting these memories coming back to me of times a long time ago.
On the same trip we encountered a blacked out Police van, out of which a half dozen armoured, gunned up, balaclava’d military type police waving machine guns around. One of our group took a couple of photographs while we went ‘oh for fecks sake don’t” just in case he got shot or arrested or something. To our surprise one of them took his balaclava off and posed for a photo. This was back in the days when most of the cars on the streets were Trabants, Moskvitch and Ladas.