Day 43 – May 28 Saturday

Another lazy start, up by 6.15am (the sun is up at 5.30am), another great Hungarian breakfast, then off to the town farm, about 4km away.  This is a small farm, around 4 acres, narrow & long on very fertile soil, with a very small farmhouse on it – a weekender.  The cherries were all just about ripe, the sour cherries a while yet, with about a dozen huge cherry trees you can eat cherries to your heart’s content.  The apples, pears, plums, peaches all have new fruit on them & will be well laden by autumn.  They also have a few very large walnut trees, covered in huge green nuts, again autumn will have plenty of walnuts.  The strawberry patches were also full of fat, ripe & very sweet strawberries, so we picked around 8 kilos of them, plus a lot in the tummy as well, they are so, so sweet, its different to the ones we buy in Canberra.  The real good news is that Tereza’s strawberry allergy hasn’t surfaced, so it must be something they put on the strawberries in Australia that affect her so badly.

While we were picking, Antal was cooking some meat on the BBQ, so by the time we cleaned up the strawberries, lunch was ready.  Evike, Radovan & her two sons, Mate & Viktor arrive, the boys driving really neat peddle cars that Radovan built – he is really handy & has done a great job on them, they look good & perform well, most importantly, the kids love them.  We talked for hours, ate more strawberries & cherries while the kids wore themselves out running around, playing & exploring & having a great time.  Packed up & back to the apartment late afternoon.  Surprise – cherries & strawberries for dinner – as well as left-over meat, etc.  We are so full.