'Summer stories' series: An appetizer for family, friends and foreigners

I have been planning to upload pictures and write about all of my summer memories for ages, sorry for those who were waiting for this moment so long...

I cannot promise I'll reach the end of my story-telling today. To tell the truth, it's very likely I won't. But at least I will start it....and finish it at another time...maybe tomorrow.Or the day after tomorrow. Or another day after tomorrow.You know, just to keep spontaneity. :) And to satisfy your needs to hear of me. :)

Those who truly know me should be aware of the fact that my stories ALWAYS go hand in hand with some helpful aids...and what are these aids, can you guess? PICTURES, of course, what else!:)

So let's see now how it all began...(dating back to the moment I began my vacation on the land of Hungary and not counting the great-great tour to and in the U.S.).

If you choose Hungarian Railway system,- the so called MÁV, which we mostly chose this summer- to reach one's final destination isn't an easy task. Our first great scene of vacation was near Lake Balaton, at Badacsony. Imagine, it took almost five hours from house to house to get there, including both my half an hour small journey with lovely little HÉV and METRO, not to mention the four hours trip with the even lovelier little MÁV.

See, one fact surely distinguishes Hungary from the States: our unique and 'wonderful' railway system!:)

It's even cheaper than flying, so why not exploiting it?

Therefore, we did it: using lovely little MÁV, almost all of the time. To make our journey simply unforgettable.

Surprisingly, from MÁV windows , you can also see Hungarian sunflowers (okay, it wasn't photographed through the windows, but only because windows were not transparent ENOUGH to do so...maybe a heavy rain would help on that).

However, after travelling everlasting hours with our Memorable and Ádorable Vehicle (MÁV) and reaching our place of stay, we felt extremely lucky to get space in a seven stars hotel*. Look at the picture, can you imagine that the hotel was just fully renovated and was extremely convenient with all those high-quality facilities? Can you? If yes, good.We couldn't.

* note that seven star hotels are only available in Hungary.

Still, after a while--to tell you the truth, --I began to love it. So now I am sure it was worth buying it.

What do you think?

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Okay, people, time to end irony. No worry: this is not reality. Hopefully. I'm just only getting sleepy (no more 'i' endings, please...)

Actually, Hungary is a lot better than that. I only tried to provide you with an 'appetizer' to our 2009 vacation. If you got interested in it (and if you long to read words and look at pictures that reflect things how they really were), I think you will have to join me next time, too, as I'm finishing it off for today (the call of the Goulash Soup--and the rumbling of my stomach- is stronger at the moment than anything else, even my determination to do creative movements on my blog...)

sorry...to be continued...soon....hopefully (and for today, really, no more 'i'. Yeah, I promise thee).

:)