Adventures in Europe and fests!

Wow! Well, I've been up to plenty here lately so need to have a bit of a long write up.
So, I'm basically coming up to 3 months here. Work is going well, but soon I'll get transferred somewhere once the summer ends. So, we'll see where that takes me at the resort.
Now since I last wrote I've been doing many fun things.

Just a couple weeks after my Croatian trip I was able to squeeze a trip into Hungary before Lilla, a Hungarian friend of mine near Gyor Hungary. The night train wasn't the best, but had a good conversation with an ethnic Hungarian, but who was from Romania. I later learned that this really was pretty common interestingly.

Once I arrived in Gyor I was taken to my friends house and treated to a wonderful breakfast of potatoes and a mix of everything else.... including Palinka, a borderline moonshine related to Rakija and is about 50% too boot. So, yeah, strong! AND it was at 8 AM! Oh boy! Oh and for each meal after for 3 days I have booze. Safe to say I was drunk to some degree the whole time I was there!

A nice trip to Gyor, the local big city, happened after lunch... and more Palinka.
After seeing the local sites and the bizillion war monuments from WW1 and the 1848 revolutions, we went shopping for my niece. Gladly Lilla made a good translator in the store. I went ahead and bought a full traditional Hungarian girls dress along with a few other tid bits. Lilla was quite thrilled that I took the effort to buy something so Hungarian as that.

To finish off the town tour went to have some tasty fisherman soup, saw a church with a statue mask thing from the first King of Hungary. Had a tour through some neat old buildings, but being Gypo part of town was kinda dumpy and foul words in Hungarian being shouted from person to person. Gladly we weren't the brunt of the language, but wasn't going to stick around either!

The rest of my time was spent chatting with Lilla, seeing the local countryside, buying up stuff like crazy and just generally relaxing. It really was nice to be in a house even just for a little time. But, had to go back to work after just a couple days. Twas a fine break though.

Now speed up to the near present, which is only like 2 weeks.

Fest season is starting up here and I had only a hat of Bavarian style. So, went to the first day of fest with just the hat. Oh I stood out so much with just the hat, but the lederhosen aren't cheap either. Hmmm.
The next day I went to the shop to just have a quick look, but not to buy.
Once I went in the shop I knew I'd be buying something more than likely. Someone then helped me try on everything, picking the correct size for me. Once I was all decked out in my clothes, 2 guys from work came in, saying the same thing I had thought before... and that night we all had lederhosens!

That night, I decided that I really wanted to enjoy my new clothes, and, oh! What better way than enter the strong man competition! 300 Kilo /600 pounds of stone. Easy peasy! Well, I knew it'd not be, but I wanted to prove to myself that I COULD do it, even a tiny bit, and do it in front of hundreds. Why, who else could say they've done that? Nae few, that's what! Oh, then I, along with 2 other guys, Managed to accidentally join in with a slap dancing group. Safe to say, all 3 of us were drunk'ish and didn't do well, but all fun as well!
Also got a free beer and won a coffee maker for trying to do lifting too. So, a good deal I think!
But after 3 nights of the fest, which is gladly in walking distance, time to take a break until the last days!