Day 45 – May 30 Monday

Awake at 5.30am with the sun, breakfast then a walk through town to Evike’s house, around a 20 minute slow walk.  Evike & Radovan bought a really old, very run down house after they married & have been renovating, repairing & extending ever since.  They have done a great job so far, it’s a work in progress, lucky that Radovan is very good with his hands, he has also done a great job on the garden, with more still in progress.  The two boys were home & Mate proudly played some classical guitar tunes he has been learning – very good for a 7 year old.  We sat & talked for a long time, playing some games with the boys before heading back to the apartment around 1pm for lunch.

Late afternoon it was back out to the weekender & we picked a lot of sweet cherries, around 8 kilos of them off the one tree, they weren’t ripe a couple of days ago but were very sweet today.  We spent a couple of hours having fun picking & eating cherries, – I picked & put them in the box, Tereza ate them out of the box.  A team effort.  We dropped a box of cherries off at Evike’s house on the way back & had another good relaxing chat.  Radovan showed me his quail breeding set-up, he has lots of tiny quail in a large heated brood box, plus lots of quail eggs in an incubator.  They are so tiny & cute.  Radovan has won many bird competition prizes around eastern Europe for the quality of the birds he breeds & shows.  He has bred Australian budgerigars & parrots in the past, as well as the different species of pheasant.  He also showed us a couple of TV interviews where he explained his different birds & breeding techniques to an expert for a special bird show.  He has sold hundreds of show birds around Europe.

Back to the apartment & another great Hungarian dinner (Once again too much).

Tomorrow morning we are off to Novi Itabej for 3 days, Tereza was born 7 km from this tiny village on a farm so we will go & visit the farm, it is still in the family although the house has been pulled down, but they have a house in the village with some land (more strawberries & cherries).