We had a cool night, with the patio door open we even needed a cover on the bed. Bliss. We had breakfast out doors and even felt a little chilled, mind you the sun was trying to break through so the prospects were for things hotting up later.
Tomorrow is August 20th, St. Stephens day, he was the first Christian king who united Hungary over 1000 years ago, so basically it’s the countries birthday and a national holiday. We still had some shopping to do and since tomorrow everywhere would be closed and Tuesday we have 9 hours driving to do, today seemed our best chance. We thought we’d have a go at Debrecen, idealy we wanted one of those roadside pepper sellers or alternativelly a market. Things started well, the guide book said there was a market which was open on a Sunday 4.00am ’till 11.00am. We got there about 9.00ish to find they had pulled down the market hall recently and we had no idea what had happened to the market.
Things went rather down hill from there. The weather started to heat up and we all got rather snippy. We had to go and do our shopping in Tesco, a store we usually boycot due to their policy of selling live turtles in their Chinese supermarkets. So we all felt rather guilty, but at least we managed to get the cucumber slicers, paprika, vinegar, salami and some more wine(??). Their peppers were not too great and Maria was whining about how she’d had enough and was ready to go back home to England there and then, so we just bought a few and John said we could drive around for a bit. One, the car is air conditioned, two, we might come accross some roadside sellers and three, if worst comes to the worst we can always pop into another Tesco on our way on Tuesday.
A good idea, after a couple of hours in the car we all felt a lot better. No sign of any roadside stalls until we came to one village, where every other house seemed to have stalls. Mostly selling baskets, garden gnomes(?), watermelons and onions.We seem to be a bit early for peppers, but we managed to find a few kilos of very nice ones, rather expensive (only half the price of those in England) but still.
The day was further improved when we found a lovely cukrazda and had cake and ice cream.
We’ve had a nice tea, outdoors, rather plaugued by wasps, and are now contemplating whether we want to watch the fireworks at the Bridge Fair in about an hour. Tomorrow is our last day and we think we might spend it at the fair again.