The Remainder of our Visit to the Puszta

The denouement to the entertainment was to see some of the other animals traditionally found on farms in the Puszta. First up were the oxen pulling a wagon.



I have to say that I'm surprised that people are willing to work around animal with such long horns. I'd have thought they'd be trimmed back a bit by now.

We got to walk through the horse barn where a lipizzaner posed in profile for me.

And we got to see the sheep all crowding together.

And these we headed to the "farmhouse" for lunch. We had a traditional goulash (the hungarian 'l' has a 'y' sound to it ... at least in this word...so it is pronounced 'gou-yash') followed by pork cutlets. To accompany the pork we had fries, boiled potatoes, and rice. E was in heaven with all the white foods. And to top it all off, the vegetables to put on the rice were mostly onions, a little carrot, and few peas. All this washed down with your choice of red or white wine and some, mostly flat, sparkling water.

To entertain us while we ate, there was a trio with a fiddle, a bass, and hammer dulcimer called a Cimbalom. This, it seems, is a pretty traditional Hungarian band. And they played some traditional hungarian music along with "Waltzing Matilda", "Que Sera, que sera", and "Somewhere my Love". Don't ask how these last ones fit in the tradition of hungarian music on the Puszta. Enjoy.