Driving from Budapest, via Austria to Asolo, Italy

On Saturday, October 10 of 1984 we did rise at 6:00 as we wanted to caravan with Pieter's Dutch student back to Italy where he lived and worked for the largest Italian mushroom farm.

Together with the two American colleagues in our rental car we did so at 7:45 as breakfast only was available at 7:00...

We had only done 1515 km but today we would be adding some more!

This is me in Asolo, Italy after arrival and a good night sleep!
Notice my love for roses? I'm wearing here my red coral + gold rose pendant...

Driving all the way from Budapest, Hungary, through Austria...
We ate here in St. Gertraud, Austria at Café-Restaurant Gutschi...

To the Venice area in Italy...

We arrived at Asolo by 20:00 and had now a total of 2390 km.

Husband Pieter took this photo of our Italian friend Tommaso  (l), Long Chi Wu and Frank Gabell, me and the Dutch student who worked and lived in Italy at the time.

After a glass of wine we go out to dinner. Boletus and delicious.

We were tame...!

Hotel Duse, Asolo - Historic Center where we loved to stay!

Sunday, October 28, we got up and had breakfast. 

We both walked around in Asolo, went to the little Church - being very happy!

We both love Asolo and staying at Hotel Duse was always a joy.

Lovely to walk around on a Sunday morning...
Wearing my Scottish Royal Stewart Tartan skirt, my own sewing creation from the fabric Pieter brought me home the year before from his MGA conference trip in England.
Pieter gifted me also the Royal Stewart Tartan woolen scarf + matching gloves.

Asolo's Historic Center is so special!

Medieval Asolo, with its cobble stone one-way roads!
By 11:45 Martin came to pick us up and we went to Tommaso all together.
Rosella had cooked a delicious meal for all of us.
Cozy in the lower part of the big house of his Father, with open hearth fire we enjoyed our lunch!

Martin took us to the Tempio Canoviano from a wealthy artist in Possagno.

Some climbing to do but breathtaking view!

What a lovely Sunday it was in the fall here in Italy!
We went to Monte Grappa and had a coffee with Grappa in their mountain hut.
Even on top of the mountain they grew Pleurotus in bags!

With our American colleagues we visited Bassano del Grappa with its covered bridge over the River Brenta at the foothills of the Venetian Prealps.

Sunday at the end of the day... Martin's wife and child and also his brother.
We rounded things off with a dinner together, specialty of the region at a local restaurant.
That meant pigeon soup!
I will never forget Frank Gabell's face when I did translate this to him...

What a day; stay tuned...
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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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Related link:
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