yeah, WELCOME really for me.
I spent the entire last week in Gödöllő city and what else?Working? After a time like this it is kind of healthy.
I left Geneva on Saturday in the direct flight to Budapest and arrived 20 min before the forecasted, isn't that rare?
Then with the husband parents we went to a restaurant to celebrate the 'name day'. Honestly, I hate this kind of celebration, through all the years I lived there the older people always tried to push this 'event' on me. Not to mention that in the lab the people of my generation reallllly didn't care about it at all. Well, I am sorry but this is how it stayed for me.
Discordances apart, besides the husband parents, other two relatives of his immense family were there, and this accounts for almost everybody (a bit amazing for me, because my close family is composed of about 25-30 people). The restaurant located in the outskirts of Budapest was very cute and with the shape of a boat. The food was good although it is difficult to find a restaurant in Hungary whose food is not hot (on the meaning of veeeery spicy) at all. Well, the meaning is that who needed reading spectacles, didn't have them. I know what this means, since I used glasses for 15 years!
They have a very funny tradition this family. They borrow among themselves the reading glasses, isn't that amazing??? What happened? The waiter overheard they mentioning they can't read the menu so he came and offered what? No, not a menu with bigger letters, instead he offered reading glasses according to their degrees!
Then I passed a homy week working in Gödöllő at the ABC (or MBK). Oh gosh, how I missed being among those funny people and breathing some scientific air. Yeah, Hungarians are funny besides what I listened around here....they are serious when they have to be!
I also enjoyed the price (I didn't know that in Switzerland it was already available) and the time to take the H1N1 vaccine. For those who are curious about the side effects, I didn't have any, just my arm was hurting for a while.
After all experiments were over, I had time to visit the Vörösmarty Xmas market, one of the best around here in Europe and one of the few opened on Sundays! We have kind of a tradition, every year he have to go there or to other Xmas fair. The square is very beautifully decorated, the handcrafts you can buy are amazing and stylish, the food is delicious (and hot) and the mulled wine is fantastic (it is worth to keep the mug that comes with it, we have a collection!). One of the little shops calls foreigner's attention a lot: the kürtőskalács one which is a sweet bread prepared in the wood fire and covered with sugar and walnut/cinnamon/chocolate when it is still hot, it has mouth-watering smells meanwhile it is baked and when it is ready the smells are incredibly tasty!
I spent the entire last week in Gödöllő city and what else?Working? After a time like this it is kind of healthy.
I left Geneva on Saturday in the direct flight to Budapest and arrived 20 min before the forecasted, isn't that rare?
Then with the husband parents we went to a restaurant to celebrate the 'name day'. Honestly, I hate this kind of celebration, through all the years I lived there the older people always tried to push this 'event' on me. Not to mention that in the lab the people of my generation reallllly didn't care about it at all. Well, I am sorry but this is how it stayed for me.
Discordances apart, besides the husband parents, other two relatives of his immense family were there, and this accounts for almost everybody (a bit amazing for me, because my close family is composed of about 25-30 people). The restaurant located in the outskirts of Budapest was very cute and with the shape of a boat. The food was good although it is difficult to find a restaurant in Hungary whose food is not hot (on the meaning of veeeery spicy) at all. Well, the meaning is that who needed reading spectacles, didn't have them. I know what this means, since I used glasses for 15 years!
They have a very funny tradition this family. They borrow among themselves the reading glasses, isn't that amazing??? What happened? The waiter overheard they mentioning they can't read the menu so he came and offered what? No, not a menu with bigger letters, instead he offered reading glasses according to their degrees!
Then I passed a homy week working in Gödöllő at the ABC (or MBK). Oh gosh, how I missed being among those funny people and breathing some scientific air. Yeah, Hungarians are funny besides what I listened around here....they are serious when they have to be!
I also enjoyed the price (I didn't know that in Switzerland it was already available) and the time to take the H1N1 vaccine. For those who are curious about the side effects, I didn't have any, just my arm was hurting for a while.
After all experiments were over, I had time to visit the Vörösmarty Xmas market, one of the best around here in Europe and one of the few opened on Sundays! We have kind of a tradition, every year he have to go there or to other Xmas fair. The square is very beautifully decorated, the handcrafts you can buy are amazing and stylish, the food is delicious (and hot) and the mulled wine is fantastic (it is worth to keep the mug that comes with it, we have a collection!). One of the little shops calls foreigner's attention a lot: the kürtőskalács one which is a sweet bread prepared in the wood fire and covered with sugar and walnut/cinnamon/chocolate when it is still hot, it has mouth-watering smells meanwhile it is baked and when it is ready the smells are incredibly tasty!
The night can then be finished with a walk around the boulevard and after at the Andrassy street
with its Xmas decoration. Actually the Xmas illumination of the entire city is extraordinary.
I also came back with the direct flight Budapest-Geneva. one of my sorrows is for how long this flight will be kept because both days I flew the airplane had no more then 20-30 people. Otherwise, if they close it we will have to go to Zurich or by EasyJet.Now it is back for the same life than before, but with other eyes of course.
The Xmas market view
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