BÚÉK 2013

what a weird sound to 2013 - too much like sci-fi time-warp... (sorry Lois - this is called lazy blogging) Bit of anti-climaxish here, kids all' flown away yesterday and got the messages that they arrived safely and were too knackered to go out to celebrate. we went to the grand Silvester concert with Marta, and Alan, the birthday boy, who totally disliked it and I won't hear the end of it for a few years. I thought it was quite good and interesting if not memorable... Walking the downtown streets were not as I remembered - quite devoid of what could be called crowds, but a lot of small groups/couples roaming around looking for something of past jollyfications, like us. still, all not bad, and resolution is (mine) to only eat when hungry, food devoid of unhealthiness... hm except the poppyseed beigli that begged to be finished... there lingering here sulkily xmas cake, xmas pudding, beigli - and a decent portion of lentil, which has to be eaten on New Years Day to make one beautiful and rich... The last few days were a pleasantly lovely blur of drinks, food, ambling on the streets and lots of mulled wine. Went to see the new Ken Loach film Angels' Share, that was as good as usually is, enjoyable with -sorry if I mess it up for you - happy end for a change. Went to see the Cezanne exhibition with Sharon (great - except us being not so much interested in the scatches) and discovered on the way back from the Museum of fine arts a great Turkish coffee/tea house. We went to see my sister's on the 25th, having a real family xmas meal, minus any stress, all was just lovely, kids adults all having a good time. Hope to get fotos soon. Sharon was taken to her first cave-visit; went to the Pálvölgyi dripstone cave, that was quite impressive especially being practically in the middle of Buda, though much less dripsones/stalactite/stalagmite than I remembered. So as you can see, it was yet another joyous holiday, especially as kids+extra kids were here, marred with the eventual parting. oh yes! We treated (if they agree to that verb) the non-hungarian contingent (Sharon and Drew) to Fungarian - which is an hour of intensive lesson in Hungarian language and customs in the Katapult pub... we rescued them after a free extra 30 minutes by the very enthusiastic teacher, the students seemed a bit bewildered, but claimed that they enjoyed the experience and who are we to doubt their words. best wishes again for all who bothers peeping through these non=too-exciting and lately non-too farming bloggings. Fotos are again dominated by food as usual - I hope more being sent by Szonya and Sharon in the next few days. You can see tökfőzelék in the Kádár kifőzde, flódni, which is the cake with layers of poppyseed, wallnuts and apple filling, the Széna tér market (also food) and of course, xmas pudding (bought all the way from England)