Hungary! Home, sweet home

After a year away, It was time to come home. On the way home I had to stop in Kiev, Ukraine. At the airport I was amazed that in the toilet I could wash my hand with hot water. ..This was an amazing year. It thought me not to take for granted many things.
Before this trip I wouldn't even thought abot how amazing is that we have hot water ( or just plain running water) electricity and all the likes.
It is great to be home and after the many hours in asian public transport, my 8 + 2 hour long flights with a 4 hour stopover was like a treat : )))))
The plane was clean, I had my own seat which I didn't have to share with other people or animals : )
People spoke English and not one has tried to ask me where I was coming from. No one cared... People took it granted that I am white, so there were no people staring at my face when I woke up from a well earned snooze ;o)
It was great to see my friends and family : )
Many of my friends have not been to Hungary, so I thought that I 'll make a new blog for those who would like to know a bit more about my home country.
to put this blog together took me time, cause for the first time in ages the weather was not cooperating : (
I spent some time with family and friends, cooking some hungarian gulyas. Now I must tell you all:
Here we don't eat gulyas all the time, altho people tends to believe we do. Gulyas is usually cooked with friends and family in a special pot we call "Bogracs" it is originally made of beef, onions,potato, tomato and paprika. lots of paprika : )
While the stew is stewing we drink and socialize with friends and family.
this is the tipical meal which for the foreigners we serve with Peptobismol :o)
most of hungarian dishes are very heavy. we eat a lot of ham and bacon without cooking with onions and white bread.
The older people in Hungary still makes sweets and pastry from scratch, so When I visited my brother, his mother inlaw showed us one or 2 really cool desserts : )))
At the evening we lit the fire and cooked some more bacon and told stories to remember : )))
I have also visited the Bory Castle. Jeno Bory was a very talented professor.
An art teacher, sculptor, builder and painter he built his castle with his own hands and decorated it with a very distinct flair. I have visited some friends in Szekesfehervar, 90 km from Budapest and remembered how nice are the towns of my country.
Visiting Balaton is part of any hungarian family program
on a Summer Weekend. The lake is nice, but I am spoiled and don't like to bathe in a water I can't see the bottom, so I just have a cocktail in one of the many cafes and watched the people strolling around the hungarian "sea".
if the weather cooperates I will take and upload some more pictures of Budapest, my favor

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