Double Szentendre
Trip Start
Aug 22, 2005
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Trip End
Oct 31, 2005
Szentendre,
Hungary
Saturday, September 10, 2005
This is the last place we'll visit in Hungary, as we start to move West towards the coast and some much-needed sunbathing. At the moment, we have great t-shirt tans and need to remedy this.
There are many things unique to this region that we may or may not miss as follows:
1) The food. Menus are exactly as you would expect. If you order pork steak with potatoes and cabbage that is what you get. No messing around and using poncy names for things. Real food for real people. Unless you're vegetarian, in which case you would order the same meal, but leave the pork (presumably). It is impossible to get a meal without carbohydrates, whichis fine by me, but Mr Atkins and his diet hasn't quite made it this far.... dumplings, potatoes, pasta, rice - often two or three together in the same meal!
2) The toilets. As the diet is rich in pork, most toilets have a little tray in them that enables you to inspect what your body has just elected to rid itself of. Just don't try to get rid of too much, as the flush hasn't worked up much gusto by that point. Tip: Sit further forward on the seat.....
3) The language. We managed a little with Slovakian, but Hungarian is hard. Not as hard as Chinese, but hard. Some useful words that we picked up, written as I would pronounce them (with the English meaning in brackets):
a) Seeya (Hello)
b) Allo (Goodbye)
c) Sure (Beer)
d) Shite (Cheese)
e) Pussy (Kiss)
f) Fukinell (Wooden Spoon).
Many places serve beer cheese as a snack, aka sureshite. Maybe you could use a fukinell to eat it?
