After the current period of monsoon, which imprisoned us for days on end, today has dawned with some sunshine, so we braved the elements and attempted an outing. Pete has been with us since Monday and we were trying to show him a good time, which the weather kept sabotaging. However, as you can see today was most successful and we all had a good time.
We left home just after 10am and drove to
Hollókõ via Kozárd where there is a lovely restaurant. Unfortunately it wasn't open yet, so we took pot luck on the
way back.
We visited the 13th century castle first, which has been a bit over restored for my liking. Still, it was quite photogenic and the view from its ramparts was to die for.
Then we walked, slid and tiptoed down to the village where we had some soup. The boys had the local delicacy:
Palóc soup, which consisted of pork, white beans and sour cream with tarragon. Yummie, yummie!!!
After some further photo opportunities we walked back to the car and then drove to Kozárd for the rest of our lunch. Kozárd is a an interesting little village which some years back decided to specialise in apples, cherries, pears, apricots etc. They now have a thriving community with a lovely village hall, nice restaurant, 6 places where you can stay and a friendly demeanour. Shame we don't go that way too often, but every time we do, we don't regret it.
The sun is still shining, which is amazing, let us hope that the grass and the ground with dry a bit and Bandi will be able to mow the garden soon!!
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