ark, anyone? + amazing Urán város

yes are having this wwoofer-less and guest-less lull (till next Friday) with lots of rain. At least until today it was quite warm with long sunny spells in between downpours. But it was raining heavy all last night, still doing it now, and it is much cooler (15C).
Lucky that some hay was collected, bodza (elderberry) flowers picked, with Pali, some of the (badly rain damaged) cherries picked. I thought very busy birds cut into the cherries, but it turns out that after a lot of rain sudden growth of the fruit makes the skin break. Damn. Still tastes nice but if not eaten straight away, they rot in hours. managed to find about 4 jarful of healthy fruit to bottle. never mind.
We now have the sacred bodza syrup recipe, and it includes melted sugar (caramel) which was a first for me. It' become one solid dark brown lump that I thought would never dissolve after being chucked into the big 100l barrel where the bodza flowers are soaking, giving out marvellous aroma. But it did, in a few hours even without stirring.
Sold a boy-goat and it seems we'll have buyers for the rest, except for the beige one Alan decided to keep.
We harvested the leeks Alan was looking forward to eat with chicken and bacon for about a year. Frozen some and done a 4 days portion of soup/stew - I am not all that impressed, but Alan is enjoying it... last lot today...
Also premièred a new pudding "máglyarakás" that turned out just fab, if I may say so... Alexander and Mustapha/Tahar had some, too, and there were no complaints from the first (well, he is on the quiet side, especially as we cannot communicate due to lack of shared language) and there was praise from the latter.

I should tell you about our last Wednesday's alternative theatre experience it was just amazing. It was "Uran-town Walk" starting from a very pleasant bar in the middle of this concrete jungle,
originally built for 15K miners.
Adventurous pairs like us were released every ten minutes with detailed routplans printed in Hungarian as well as often a bit confusing English, down to the last bush and the colour of the houses we had to pass. En route we visited 4 of the flats in these blocks of flats 4 floors high on average. Surprising amount of greenery and playgrounds, but even more car parking areas. Some interesting statues, fountains and friezes
in various phases of dilapidation. We had a young enthusiastic actor introductory guiding in the role of a 60s architect alternatively enthusing and disparaging about the building program of that time.
In the flats we had a tragi-comedy of young couple trying to swap their tiny space to a bigger one in the old stalinist times; and old full-sized puppet-old-man a la muppets commenting grumbly on tv-clips showing old Hungarian children cartoons and the lateness of the Pécs building programs; a creepy sensory experiment and a peep in the life of a youth local community radio station. Excellent. It was all too hectic to make pictures...