Summary Beginning of the journey in Budapest: Jérôme arrives at the Brody House Hotel and later meets Peter: they begin to walk through the town (the Heroes' Square and speak about the town which has been rebuilt after the second world war: the they take the Budapest Castle Hill Funicular to the terrace of the castle: the funicular railway, the second in Europe (after Lyon) was opened in 1870.They enjoy the panorama of Budapest. Later they take a tramway (vintage model 1960) to the Parliament: a huge building of Neogothic style: they cross the main rooms and arrive at the corridor of the Deputies and at the library of the Parliament (there students and deputies are consulting books.After that they go to Széchenyi Thermal Baths (there are about 15 great thermal baths in Budapest): there are three swimming pool (the water temperature is 27-38 degrees).On the next day Jérôme meets Sophia in the market, she shows him the paprika, the truffles (they taste truffle butter) and they go to the apartment of Sophia: she prepares a mushrooms goulash with paprika and a touch of cream.They eat the goulash and Sophia gives Jérôme one of his cook book.On the next day Jérôme travels to Balmazújvaros and meets Gyula Mihalkó in his workshop: Jérôme sees how the father and son are making hats and Gyula gives Jérôme a shepherd hat to deliver to Janos, a cattle breeder.So Jérôme finds Janos in the meadows: Janos explains that the cows are Hungarian Grey cows (Magyar Szürke) with long type-shaped horns.Later Janos , in a traditional shepherd dress, gives his father the hat made by Gyula.Bak to Budapest Jérôme meets Angela, a Hungarian woman who has lived in France, married with with a French man and is French professor at the French lyceum.They go to the lyceum where they meet Mathieu and Isabela, the children and later Jean, Angela's husband.All the family and Jérôme go to a ranch where Mathieu is practicing archery from horseback: they have a picnic eating Hungarian sausages.Later Jérôme meets Judit and her Trabant (organized tours in Budapest) and Jérôme enjoy a little trip in this car.Then he meets again Peter and they visit the Budapest Synagogue (which looks like a Catholic Cathedral).After the visit they go a bar (the restored part of the Jewish neighborhood) and they have a drink.On the next day Jérôme travel s by train to Lovasberény; where he meets Michi and Machi, a couple of Budapest who has decided to live in the countryside: there is a farm and cottages : Jérôme and Michi plant a walnut tree and later drink a walnut liquor: Then Jérôme and the couple go the the school for the children and then near a river: some friends of Mich and Mli have come and all enjoy a campfire (barbecue). Besides we see zooms about the the photographer Mark Mervai, about the Chain Bridge and his keeper, about the rowers of the Danubius rowing club, about the Gellert Thermal bath, about the "spartys", about the inventors in Hungary (Ernö Rubik, the young student of the Design School), about the folk dances in the bars and cultural centers, about the Childrens' Train in the Hills of Buda and about the vineyard of Tokay ( the wine caves of the Oremus Estate).

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