The third week in town

To carry on from where I left the last post: Bridge of Spies was brilliant.  Yes, perhaps some emphasis and even detail was not quite as it happened, but the characters, most of the actual story and the atmosphere of the times was captured perfectly.  Roy was quite reluctant to go with me, but admitted at the end how much he enjoyed it.

Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies

On Saturday evening I went with Bozsa to the Festetics Palace to hear Vilmos Szabadi to play the violin, which was excellent. Unfortunately, this season there were very few violin concerts, which I regret as I prefer violin to the piano, although I like both. I doubt if we will be back to the Festetics Palace soon as there are no more concerts scheduled there.  That is a real shame, as that building is so beautiful and I especially love the Venetian chandeliers in the actual hall where the concerts are.

Vilmos Szabadi

On Sunday I managed to attend another Hash run, which this time did not include Ros and Ian, but was still a lot of fun. We travelled up to the end of bus 11 yet again and had a route which in spite the fact that we hash there far too often, was still unknown to many of us.  Hulk, as hare, led us to some nice tops for Father Abraham and then to 2 Hash Views, so we were happy.  We ended up in the Trombitás for lunch where Roy joined us.

The hashing group on one of the tops

In the evening I went with Jutka, another friend, to see one of the plays I saw only about 10 days ago.  It was, if at all possible, even more enjoyable than first time round. No break and sitting there for nearly 2 hours, listening to a brilliant actor enact somebody's war diary from 70 years ago, was spellbinding.

In front of the cave where I had to climb the rockface to get to the cache

Monday had only one not particularly exciting event in it, namely the gas meter reader coming to do the yearly reading of the meter. On Tuesday, however, there was something much more exciting and enjoyable on the program. I went geocaching with Gizi again and this time we had even more fun than last time. The daylight is  short, so we left at 7am and didn't get back until 6pm. Gizi ended up with 10 and I with 7 caches.  I had those other 3 from before, but let Gizi go and get them while I sat in the car, as they were all drive-in caches taking very little time. We saw some lovely places and while it didn't rain, like last time, it was still dark and overcast all day.  Still, all the lovely places made up for it.

A recultivated bauxite mine, site of another cache

Wednesday was spent having a rest, as this week was shaping up to be yet another marathon of activities. Today, however, there were several events and activities, not all of which were totally enjoyable.  The first one, a Hungarian film by the title of Fever at Dawn was probably the best piece of cinematic art I have seen in a while.  I have read the book a month or so ago and now the film didn't disappoint either. If you can find it in an art cinema or anywhere else where you live, do go and see it! the book is coming out in English, published by Doubleday. It is an absolutely true story, which is so beautiful and so insightful and so life affirming amidst the horror and the aftermath of the holocaust, that you shouldn't miss it! It is very rare that once you read a book, the film is just as good as the book was. This definitely was one of the exceptions to that rule. Here's the link to the trailer for the film. Enjoy!
https://vimeo.com/138878104

The hero and his doctor in the film

I went shopping for fillet steak and salmon for Christmas after the cinema, then went home, followed by a hilarious if somewhat ludicrous trip by trolley bus to buy a season ticket for some discounted massage treatments, which was recommended by a friend. There must have been some trouble with the electricity supply to the buses, because for a while they didn't come, then 5 came all at once, then the one we were on stopped. Then we got off and it got going again sailing past us. Sounds funny as I write it, but at the time it made our travelling time about treble what it should have been. Finally we went to have lunch at one of our favourite restaurants and booked a couple of seats for New Year's Eve while there.

Now I am off to a Mozart concert at the Music Academy with a couple of friends and tomorrow we are off back to the village. Hopefully it shouldn't snow before we get there as Roy hates driving on snow, but after that I hope it will come down in spades. Oh, perhaps not until after Monday, as we are off to one of our nearby villages where Roy has decided to do another project documenting and photographing the graves in their old Jewish cemetery. Talk to you next week!