Communist Hungary with Husband Pieter Part VI - Gorsium and Old Market Halls Budapest

From the Beethoven Museum at Martonvásár, we now arrived at this old Roman town...

A fascinating archaeological site is located in Gorsium.

Husband Pieter pondering about being back in time, into a Roman era...

Here lay the Roman settlement of Gorsium, which operated for three centuries and where a magnificent palace stood, an amphitheater and a cemetery.

Lung-Chi Wu, me and husband Pieter

It was quite a transformation for being way back in time!

Hungary has lots of thermal baths, so the Romans already used the warm water!

In Summer, events are now organized here

There also was a museum that we visited and we had lunch there.
At 15:15 we went back to Budapest with one bus, the other group did split off for an extended stay at Lake Balaton.
Hungary has a lot to offer and we must say that the Congress did include a lot of culture for getting to know this beautiful country.
We got off at the Gellért Hotel in Budapest by 16:20 and since it was very foggy, it would be already dark by 17:00.

At 13:17 in this video you will see the Great Market Hall, Budapest, just click through from my Pinterest.
With Pieter's Campbell Soup colleagues together we went to the Great Market Hall and got to see the information about edible and non-edible fungi.

That was quite interesting.

A perfect day's ending for all four of us!
On our way back we ate authentic Hungarian Goulash soup and with a taxi from the Gellért hotel we went all four back to the Congress Center.

We had to rise again at 6:00... stay tuned!
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Communist Hungary with Husband Pieter Part V - Martonvásár Beethoven Museum

After our dinner the previous night and the 3 hour ride in the bus back to the Congress Center in Budapest we had to rise early again at 6:30 because we would depart by bus at 8:00.
We went to MARTONVÁSÁR to the BEETHOVEN MUSEUM

Quite a Ludwig van Beethoven statue!

Beethoven stayed several times in the 18th century country house in

Martonvásár

When he went to visit the noble family Brunswick. 

Concerts take place here In July.

Under an old poplar on the island in the lake, Beethoven sat to compose...

Ludwig van Beethoven's writing...

Here was also an agricultural research institute.

Lung-Chi Wu sent us this picture with both of us in it.

Stay tuned for the next stop...
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Communist Hungary with Husband Pieter Part IV -  Kiskunhalas | previous post by me
Communist Hungary with Husband Pieter Part III - Szentendre | previous post by me
My 1st Trip to Communist Hungary with Husband Pieter Part II - Budapest | previous post by me
Driving to Communist Hungary with Husband Pieter Part I - Mayerling | previous post by me

Communist Hungary with Husband Pieter Part IV - Kiskunhalas

We must keep in mind that our visit was during Communism and everything was owned by the State.

So a lot of things are no longer valid...

On Thursday, October 25 of 1984, we got up early at 6:00 for having breakfast and then departure by bus at 7:00 for a visit to the research center in Kecskemét, Hungary.

Next we went to Hajos, where we hd lunch at the State Estate.

Complete with good music and wine!

We even purchased a bottle of wine... a Tokaj.

We saw huge agricultural areas; everything was State owned.

Next we went to the substrate preparation place for Pleurotus, in Borota.

Then we visited a private Pleurotus grower in Kunfehértó.

We even went to the State Forestry in Kiskunhalas, to look at sawn off poplar trunks. These were being spawned with  Pleurotus to digest them within 5 years. They also yielded some fresh Pleurotus. 

In KISKUNHALAS, at the State Forestry Company we had dinner with music and dance and lots of brandy, wine and champagne tasting!

In my diary I wrote: 'We even could handle it!'

Well, we dumped most of it in the decanter, at the table...

Pieter's successor at the Dutch Practical Training College, did NOT dump his glass' contents in the decanter...

A fun evening.

KISKUNHALAS ÁLLAMI GAZDASÁG

STATE FARM OF KISKUNHALAS

WINE LIST

Barack Pálinka or Apricot Pálinka (brandy) is a national drink.

Earlier, in Hajos, the Congress participants could select their photos, taken during different events.

Here Pieter is dealing with that and it probably was the photo taken during the lectures.

That's me on the right, sitting next to Frank Gabell, Pieter's Campbell Soup colleague and the one with his glass to his lips is the other colleague, Lung-Chi Wu.

Around 20:30 we departed for Budapest where we arrived singing... around 23:30.

Yes, in the bus I've been singing together with two Hungarian colleagues/friends; Júlia Györfi and Katalin Stubnya.

Our song was: KALINKA and without dancing... Haha!

Enjoy it from my Pinterest: Kalinka

and to see the authentic Russian dance to it, click here: Kalinka

My Dad sang in a small choir as a Don Kozach for a while... I had to sew his Astrakan hat, his red satin blouse and the cummerbund to it.

Both, Pieter and I LOVE Hungarian and Slavic music, including Russian!

Bit by bit you figure out who we are....

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Communist Hungary with Husband Pieter Part III - Szentendre | previous post by me
My 1st Trip to Communist Hungary with Husband Pieter Part II - Budapest | previous post by me
Driving to Communist Hungary with Husband Pieter Part I - Mayerling | previous post by me