Agricola Live: Episode 13

Such a perfect day....

Long time no write! Well now it has to be a long write for that time. :)

Where to start, so many things happened in the last couple of days. We've seen some wonderful places in the surounding and met some interesting people.... But let's go from the begining.

I had to go to Sombor(the biggest city in the vicinity), the center of the local government to get my new passport. And went to the municipality building which was built 1805 till 1809. Magnificent building that is still operational and houses a gargantuan picture that is 7x4 m big.
It was brough here by boat from Wiena and one wall had to be removed and after that rebuilt so they can put the picture in the Large hall cause all the doors were too small!! That all happened in 1898. On the picture there is a

life-sized motive of Battle of Senta (Zenta) that happened in 1697.
After I finished the official and unofficial visit to the Municipality building i took a walk through the city.

Marvelous architecture and a lot and lots of trees and green patches. It is one of the greenest cities in Europe.

There I met with my mom's friend from the childhood (she always says that they played on the street than when the streets were made out of earth pressed,

and remembers how they made pies out of mud and the dust run through the toes when that ground was dry. Those were the days.) and he suggested to take us to his Walnut forest to pick some walnuts and after that go fishing. It sounded very interesting so I accepted right away. But never thought of what will come out of
it!!

Next day he came in the morning and brought a bunch of grapes from his vineyard which tasted like the finest and sweetest juice!!!
We took our fishin' gear and went into the unknown....He went toward city of Bezdan and then just turned and went into a patch in the forest and we were in a different world. Man, I'm sure that the guy who wrote "Chronicles of Amber" most certainly was here!!!

We were in a green tunnel leading god knows where... And suddenly houses started appearing on the right and a beautiful clean water of a channel on the left, with small

concrete piers and
ladders going into the water, on which women and children were playing and fishing. And after a few minutes looking at all that beauty we realized that we are on the other side of the village.

Next we continued to our destination, walnut forest. Tarmac and earth changed so often that no one can count and finally we came and saw it and thought we were there but my mom said lets meet someone. Her name is Mira. She lives here in the forest, with her three children. No water, no electricity.

She breads goats and cows and makes cheese.
I thought of some granny in the long skirt and a scarf over her head. But what a surprise.... She is is a nice looking fit middle-aged woman. Who lives with her animals and nature in harmony in a small beautiful house in the forest. I think the best description is Sara Connor from T2 played by Linda Hamilton. You can see that she works a lot but still underneath all those muscles there is a tender beautiful woman.

Then we went to the walnut forest with the walnuts as big as an egg and helped Joska (that is my mom's friends name) to gather walnuts and in that same forest picked raspberries and ate them with grapes and walnuts all freshly picked. Sorry folks, but that is one thing you have to come hereto taste it is indescribable!!!

And finally fishing!!! It was one of the nicest fishing in my life!!! Water was so clear that you can actually see the fish swimming and eating the bate. We spent most of the day there, it was so perfect and Joska is such a nice guy, so friendly and patient.

We ate there traditional local snack which comprises of bacon, smoked sausage, bread and tomatoes again all from the Joskas own production. Just a sharp knife and a roof of the car as a table :) It was so simple but soooo tasty!!!