Budapest and Its Mining Legacy

Today, once more/again, I went to the BBC news website where I read an article about Budapest and its mining history. It related that from the time of The Middle Ages to the second half of 19th Century, there has been a long mining tradition in Budapest. This is easily reflected in the architecture of the city; there are a lot of buildings made of limestone--a porous rock-- that local miners used to extract as they searched for other minerals. After the mining works ended, some breweries then used the existing cellar systems as they were a nice cool place for the fermentation to occur and to extract fresh water.

Over the passing years, some of these lower chambers and wells had become flooded. So much so, that in the last century, the government had asked some local divers to clean up selected underwater areas. In doing so, the local divers found incredible submerged chambers for exploration. However, those diving sites are only accessible to those divers who have an Open Water Diver certification and for some sites, you’ll need to have an even a higher diving certification. Although Budapest is a beautiful and historic city, one which is bisected by the Danube River, I had never thought of it as a diving destination until now—perhaps, I will do so on my next vacation?

Hi Mikel. Good job! An interesting write-up, thanks for posting it! Whatever changes that I’ve made were merely done to allow your sentences to sound more natural to my native ears, for clarity, and for continuity. I hope that this helps you. J.

*The word “I” in reference to yourself should be capitalized as a proper noun. The pronoun for a city should be the neutral “its” rather than masculine or feminine. I added a concluding sentence as your text seemed to just end abruptly, so remember to do so yourself next time. It can just be a summation of what you wrote before, an interesting observation or just a somewhat humorous comment as I wrote.

Budapest and the its mining legacy