and now the photos

got home after a nice morning with surprise Tisza ferry and a hot and bothersome afternoon, with not being impressed by Hortobagy, though the pancake was good. After kicking most of my big-toe-nail off in therefore horrid Tiszafured, we arrived to the peaceful refuge of Szolnok Hotel Tisza. Next day back home - with everything waiting for us to be picked and processed. Luckily, the weather turned and is now is href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uqiig_LsxSM/VaGRIe_-qnI/AAAAAAAAD7w/Q-c3_roI2L8/s1600/20150711_195103.jpg" imageanchor="1" >hjust right. unfortunately I don't know how to put titles to the photos - you have to guess... includes some birthday and Szekszard.

lILLAFÜRED holiday

Our week here in the Tókert Hotel is just drawing to a close, tomorrow we are off to Hortobágy on our way back home. Luckily the unusual heatwave to end, so hopefully our drive won't be too uncomfortable (there is no aircon. in Hippo). We had a lovely time - feeling guilty continuously as supporting the greeks from such a beautiful place, eating such uniquely fine meals if expensive ones here on the terrace looking out to the lake surrounded by the mighty beech forests. While Erzsi and Tibi are looking after the farm heroically, as there the temperatures did reach 40C. The apricots harvest awaits... Besides having lots of lazying about, we did some touristy things, had a brief look at Miskolc, found a Greek Orthodox church with very impressive icons, used the forest railway about 4 times and some other stuff I cannot think of. Eaten the locally produced trouts extensively, including the special smoked variety - extremely nice. Photos coming when back home. By the way - we are flying to Greece on the 30th October, for our long planned 4 months winter stay, we found a beach-side villa to rent in Agios Andreas (Might have spelt it wrong) South Peleponese. And probably man the barikades there. yesterday was the hot trip to the Diósgyőr castle, quite impressive, guided tour by girls in knight-era dress (poor things) and knightly tournament demo afterwards. Luckily found cool wine cellar to watch it from. Had hot sprint to catch little train back, but before that we had a quaint hour in weird place opposite castle, entertained by old bar pianoplayer, old piano-teacher, our hostess and friend singing and dancing, because they felt like it, we were the only guests having the only dish on offer, kemencés lilahagymás tejfölös szallonnás lángos - rather nice. today we went into the Szent István barlang, 10 min walk from here, freezing to death (it was 10C) with 50-odd polish schoolkids. Very impressive cave with them stallag-things. Had soup/cake/coffee in the Palota hotel, very nice. Sat inside, the terrace with the view was like an oven. We were thinking of going to the trout farm later, but it is closing at 5pm. In fact everything but the posh places close here 6:30pm latest, weird. Asked why, they said they were too hot. But at 6:30pm it actually starts cooling with more people venturing out... this is Hungarian style market capitalism...