To Kaposvar via Statue Park

Trip Start Aug 25, 2006

Trip End Sep 10, 2006

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Where I stayed

Hotel Kapos

(Kaposvar hotels)

Flag of Hungary Kaposvar, Hungary
Saturday, September 2, 2006

Picked up the rental car with no problems and were on the road by 10 with a brief stop to buy a highway permit sticker (you need these to drive on the motorways in Hungary and Slovakia, otherwise you have to stick to small roads or risk huge fines. Luckily they can be purchased for time periods of a week or month.

Statue Park is a a collection of communist era propaganda statues. This was one of the best things we did on the whole trip. Sadly, these were among our lost pictures, so I have to content myself with postcards and the website. The statues are amazingly large and some of them are really beautiful.

Then on to Kaposvar, Andi's homtown. We got a little bit turned around trying to find the Hotel Kapos and eventually just parked the car to find it on foot

Rental Car

. As we were checking in, we ran into Andi and Russ in the lobby. Russ took us to park the car somewhere long term and then we found Pat and spent a few hours chatting, doing laundry, and resting before the wedding.

The wedding ceremony was brief and at City Hall, but there was a band playing in the square as we were waiting to go into the Hall and waiting for the couple afterwards. They were showered with rice and then the feast at the Hotel Kapos started. The food was neverending: chicken soup, beef with dumplings, a platter of meat with rice and fried, a pastry tray, wedding cake, and other cake--as the first round. At midnight more food came out--cheese biscuits, cabbage and meat dishes, and more cakes. Of course there was dancing inbetween--though largely to songs we didn't know. I made it to 2 am and gave up for the night.