For another day it was across agricultural land on straight roads and tracks. There were two highlights: Karoly Kastely and a fete at Tompahat.
Before leaving Gadoros I stopped to pick up some food at the Coop. It was 6:30 am (shops open early) and a farmers' market was setting up with a variety of locally grown vegetables and fruits. I bought a few peaches. Like yesterday's walk the route passed many fields on roads and tracks. They were harvesting the sunflowers. The harvester cut the stems, a screw pulled the sunflowers into the harvester where the seeds were somehow separated and then the plant remains excreted out the back of the machine. A tractor with two trailers was standing by. Periodically the harvester filled a trailer with sunflower seeds from a boom, the seed looking black from a distance streaming out like water from a tap.
At Nagymaros, a village on route, I walked around the grounds of Karoly Kastely. The Karoly family was a big aristocratic family with these stately homes everywhere, I stayed in one that had been converted into a hotel on an earlier trip. This one was nicely located in a bend in the river. I had lunch watching some fishermen with a "Greek" rotunda on the opposite bank.
As I walked the last stretch to Tompahat along a dirt road, not only did several cars come past me heading the other way, there were also a number of horse and carriages (the carriages were open and had two men up front, one driving the horses, and two people behind, so maybe it was a buggy or a trap). I discovered when I arrived at Tompahat that there was a village fete, and I had missed the horse and carriage races. After settling into the Bagoly Szallashely where I am staying for the night I was able to watch some of the events, including a wind band (brass plus clarinet, flute and drums), some youngsters doing ballroom dancing, a young lady singing, possibly songs from musicals, a magician and various other acts, getting more professional as the evening wore on.
As the darkness fell lightening was visible in the West, there was a brief but heavy shower, then they set off the fireworks. As the rain subsided the acts continued but it was time for me to go to bed....
Before leaving Gadoros I stopped to pick up some food at the Coop. It was 6:30 am (shops open early) and a farmers' market was setting up with a variety of locally grown vegetables and fruits. I bought a few peaches. Like yesterday's walk the route passed many fields on roads and tracks. They were harvesting the sunflowers. The harvester cut the stems, a screw pulled the sunflowers into the harvester where the seeds were somehow separated and then the plant remains excreted out the back of the machine. A tractor with two trailers was standing by. Periodically the harvester filled a trailer with sunflower seeds from a boom, the seed looking black from a distance streaming out like water from a tap.
At Nagymaros, a village on route, I walked around the grounds of Karoly Kastely. The Karoly family was a big aristocratic family with these stately homes everywhere, I stayed in one that had been converted into a hotel on an earlier trip. This one was nicely located in a bend in the river. I had lunch watching some fishermen with a "Greek" rotunda on the opposite bank.
As I walked the last stretch to Tompahat along a dirt road, not only did several cars come past me heading the other way, there were also a number of horse and carriages (the carriages were open and had two men up front, one driving the horses, and two people behind, so maybe it was a buggy or a trap). I discovered when I arrived at Tompahat that there was a village fete, and I had missed the horse and carriage races. After settling into the Bagoly Szallashely where I am staying for the night I was able to watch some of the events, including a wind band (brass plus clarinet, flute and drums), some youngsters doing ballroom dancing, a young lady singing, possibly songs from musicals, a magician and various other acts, getting more professional as the evening wore on.
As the darkness fell lightening was visible in the West, there was a brief but heavy shower, then they set off the fireworks. As the rain subsided the acts continued but it was time for me to go to bed....
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| Karoly Kastely |
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| Young singer at Tompahat fete |
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