Day 57 Sunday 17 July 2016

We didn’t hear the church bells this morning at 7am, maybe they don’t ring that early on a Sunday. We were woken at 8am by Katica as we wanted to go to the Catholic Church to hear Antal sing in the church choir. I checked the car tire this morning & it is flat, so will deal with it after church. The Catholic Church in Kikinda is beautiful inside with the quality of painting to rival most churches we have seen. The church service started at 9am so we sat at the back & listened to the preacher drone on in Hungarian & interspersed thankfully now & again by the nice singing of the choir. The lead woman singing has a beautiful voice, apparently a lady that went to university school of music with Katica & then she became a nun, Sister Bernadet.

We walked back to the apartment with Antal after the service which finished at 10am & he then prepared a delicious lunch for us, soup, roast chicken, mashed potatoes & cucumber salad with a whole bulb of garlic in it (no vampires tonight). While Antal was cooking I changed the tire on the car & will get it repaired when shops open again tomorrow, light rain as I am doing it. Antal seems to enjoy eating the hottest chilli that he can find & slices it into his soup, I can’t even handle one slice it is that hot – Ron tried the thinnest sliver of chilli & regretted it after the first spoon full of soup. Antal sliced 2 thin slivers into my soup & I had to get rid of the chilli slices & hardly could manage eating the soup it was so hot.

Our life here is so sedate, we are not doing any work, it will be hard to get back to normal life at home. A lazy afternoon siesta then a walk in the cold to Evike’s house for a chook check & pick some tomatoes & raspberries. It started to rain lightly on the way back & we are thankful that we thought to bring our coats. It is so hard to imagine that a few days ago it was so hot & now so cold, around 14C. Tereza & Katica seem to have so much to chat about & they are always laughing.

Katica & I watched Hungary’s beauty quest to choose the 2016’s most beautiful girl who will represent Hungary at the Miss World competition in Washington. The girls were all very beautiful, the clothes amazing, their talk & ambitions were interesting & clever – I am sure the jury had to do the eeni-meeni-myny-mo. Another good day.