After seeing how upset I was yesterday John did a bit of a search and found a couple of cukrázdas. Since one was pretty close we decided to go, in our ongoing quest to find the best Dobos Torta in Hungary. Sadly they did not have any, but they did have a very acceptable alternative.
It was very busy with people in and out for cakes and ice cream. Since Maria insisted on sharing my cake I still had room for some ice cream afterward. I had Black Peter (a very dark chocolate) and a lemon. They were delicious.
We had invited some relatives of Maria, a cousin called Gabi, her husband Pisti and their daughter Bernadett for tea. It was a lovely meal and a nice time was had by all, the only problem was Gabi and Maria were so busy gossiping no one remembered to take any photos.
Today we were going to go to Herend and Ajka in search of some porcelain and crystal. But we discovered several places we wanted to visit were closed on Sunday, so we diverted. First we went to Pannonhalma, the monks there, like monks everywhere make some excellent wine and liqeuers, so we bought some.
Then we decided to look up some more of Maria’s relatives. Dead ones.
She knew both her parents were born in a village called Kajár. We could not find it on the map but were eventually told it had joined with another village called Kispéc and was now called Kajárpéc. By asking around we found the right cemetary, there were lots of graves with Toth on them (Maria’s mum’s maiden name) and a few with Kocsis on them, (Maria’s dad’s name). I don’t know if any of them were the right ones but Maria seemed happy.
We then moved on to Lovászpatona, where she grew up, well partly up, she left when she was 8. Again a visit to the graves, (at least she knew which ones were related to her) and then a drive through the village, with running commentary.
This is where I went to school…
This is the street I lived on, and Santa always visited that blue house before ours…
Etc. etc. She videod all of this and apparently she’s going to put appropriate commentary on it and present Claire with it. (I must remember to warn Claire).
Tonight we’re seeing some more relatives, Hédi, Kati etc. I’ve met them before. Maria and John might even remember to take photos.