Wednesday July 30 Day 15:

Just got back from an almost 600 km trip to eastern Hungary. It is just after 8 pm.

Storms are brewing in West Hungary where I was last week. No rain here yet. We travelled non-stop because they were afraid of running into the storm.

We visited Andrea and her husband Attila and 3 year old son Mark. Mark was more than a handful for 1 person most of the time.

Gnorgyi described Nyiregyhaza as a small town.... well it is 3 times bigger than Oshawa and has a downtown about 100 times nicer than Oshawa. There is a huge walking-only area that has beautiful flowers and very clean. I found it hard to believe that there was only 145 000 people there. The buildings down town were also very nice and new or refinished.

It was a hot day about 30 C but most of the day there was a nice breeze.

We ate outside at a small restaurant the adults got gyros and Mark got fried pork on rice. Our meal was very good and very inexpensive.... about $3 each.They were on special.

We took a bus (all 6 of us) to an area where there was a beautiful park and 2 lakes; originally it had been a mine site that was reclaimed. Much nicer than yesterday's area.

Time for ice cream ! I can't resist a double of two different kinds. One is always lemon and today the other was malna (raspberry). This icecream was the best so far and the biggest scoops. I treated everyone, the least I could do and it was very inexpensive.

They had a bike path and a runners path around the lake. The bike path was made by small bricks (that you find in driveways)and the running path was narrower but had a special surface like they have in the runner's lanes in good stadiums. Lots of money went into it.

We passed a large zoo too. We did not go in.

We went back to their small apartment and Attila tried to get my pictures downloaded to his computer. There must have been a problem with the cable since we could not do it.

We watched the weather on the Internet and found that storms may be hitting Budafok(Budapest suburb) at about 8 pm. So off we went and Jancsi spared nothing on the way back. We got back at 7:40 pm.

Time for supper ! We finished the pork guylas from yesterday. Even better the next day.

Just in time to see another “Wind at your Back” circa 1997 ! almost all in Hungarian. Funny to watch. Relatively easy to understand. It was filmed in Bowmanville... maybe I said this before.