The Beres family were stellar, out of this world hosts. I'm not sure what I--a person who, outside of 4 out-of-town high school choir students in 1988, has never hosted anyone--did to deserve such luxury. I enjoyed every minute of it.
We went to Gundel where I had an absolutely fabulous meal. It consisted of cold zucchini soup--who knew it could be so good--a cold salmon and eggplant dish and dessert. I got the famous Gundel dessert which was a filled crepe. The Beres family shares my healthy appreciation for dessert in general and ice cream in particular.
With my appetite sated, we journeyed to the Beres house where met Gyorgy, as well as Barnabas' grandmother. I found my bathroom, room and bed in quick order and I slept 12 hours.



I forgot to mention in the last post that the airline lost my luggage. They also lost Eric and Isabelle's. I blame the quick connection between Amsterdam and Budapest, but really, why couldn't they get all of our luggage on the same plane? So I arrived in Hungary with what was in my backpack (luckily, my toiletries) and Marcia kindly lent me a shirt and a pair of socks for Saturday.
Also! Hungarian has all sorts of cool accent marks that aren't available on Blogger. So really, their last name is B-e[accent mark slanting to the left]-r-e-s. Barnabas's name has a slanty to the left accent over the third a, and his father has an umlaut over the "o" in his name.
Very Cool! What a great family! I would never think of hosting...so nice that others do! -S
ReplyDeleteIs that some sort of sleigh bed?? How delightful!
ReplyDeleteIt was sort of a couch, but more in a bow-shape than the normal rectangular shape. One of Gyorg's patients made it for him.
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