Day 52 Tuesday 12 July 2016

A real Hungarian breakfast this morning, smoked ham, home-made sausage, capsicum, tomato, home-made jam, local fresh honey from the acacia trees, fresh bread from the baker. We spent all morning chatting before lunch, then after lunch we drove to Zrenjanin with Katica to visit cousin Dusan & his wife Gizella. More crazy Serb drivers – downright scary when you see a car overtake 3 big trucks & they are coming straight at you & you have nowhere to go to get out of the way & you are braking like crazy & they just make it to the other side in the nick of time – but it is not that far away, a shade over 30 km (luckily). Zrenjanin is the small city where Tereza spent most of her early years until she was 11 before her family fled across the border after the uprising in Budapest. Poor Dusan, he isn’t well either, he has a lot of health problems & can’t work. His wife, Gizella is a music teacher at the school of music, she teaches classical guitar but at home she also teaches piano & piano accordion, we had a couple of hours chatting & catching up. We drove back to Kikinda, encountering a few more crazy Serb drivers.   Next was a late afternoon walk to Evike’s house to check the chooks & birds. We did stop for an ice-cream cone to eat along the way & that was welcome as it was fairly warm, around 34C & it was late afternoon. We whinged about the cold wet weather while we were on our tour, we didn’t realised that it was a blessing, if it would have been this hot I don’t think we would have coped with all the walking & activities. Another good Hungarian meal for supper & another late night, it’s starting to become a habit. Another great day.