Part four in the Transylvania series. Ever since I started visiting the Homorod Szentpeter in 2001, I remember hearing bits of conversation about bowling...yes, bowling. This always sounded bizarre since the village of 120 people has no businesses but a tiny pub and an even tinier grocery story...as in 10' X 10', and a small boiler factory. The conversations were always about a particular part of a building that also housed the "culture house," or dance hall. I knew the room existed and that it was long and narrow but I thought it was a joke when they talked about it as having been a bowling alley. Much to my surprise, this time, I found it had been a bowling alley and indeed it had been rehabbed since I was last there. The village had its
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