Okay, I have been procrastinating! I have been back from my last
adventure for 18 days now. This does not mean I won't have another adventure, I plan to have a lot of them. the one adventure that has occurred this past two hours was learning how to post a picture from my e-mail to my blog. I'm not through yet and I anticipate a few more challenges along the way.
Joshua (19 year old grandson) and I departed from DIA on July 31st and after brief stops in Chicago and London arrived in Budapest on August 1st. Yes, I was a little tired but ready to see my friends.
We were promptly gathered and off for the approximate 30 minute drive to
Szentendre. Zsuzsa and Laci haven't aged a bit and the boys, Zoli, Akos and Szolt, are all brilliant, beautiful and doing very well in their chosen fields. Zoli will soon take his law exams, Akos is headed back to
Switzerland for one more year in hotel and restaurant management (anyone out there looking for a bright young Hungarian who speaks English and would do a bang up job with your hotel?), and Szolt is 15 still paying chess and winning all games and is now into soccer and tennis. We got settled and unpacked and I will be showing some pictures of this beautiful home. You will see why we ate many of our at home meals right in the back yard. I also have a picture of the view from my balcony off my second floor bedroom.
Everyone then decided to eat out a the
Kereskedohaz Cafe and Restaurant in the heart of Szentendre. The Kereskedohaz (don't ask me to pronouce it!) is a building constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries. The cafe/restaurant also is connected via an arched passage way to the Kovacs Margit Museum. A dream of the owners has been to offer various cultural events in the square and that dream has come to fruition. The restaurant is one of the first in Hungary to offer the special "sous-vide", a new technology which is a special, scientific method of slow heating of vacuumed-food. The food is delicious and tastes like it just came from the garden or the farm. Just as an aside, the food in Europe is wonderful. Afterward we walked off a little of "too much food". There is a great broadwalk right along the Danube. By the way, contrary to Strauss, the Danube is brown not blue.
By this time, I was ready to go nighty-nite and Joshua was ready to party with the boys. And I did and they did!
Labels: Adventure Called Life, Kereskedohaz Cafe and Restaurant, Switzerland, Szentendre
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Jacqui Jeffress @ 2:24 PM
