TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Friday, July 7, 2006

10:06 PM
Posted by jodi rose

page after page of scambled thoughts rendered illegible in my notebook. it helps get them clear in my head, and then dont really need to read them again. lay awake listening to what sounded like country drag racing taking place on the street, and bursts of music from the green pub not too onerous.
still in shock at the summer diet - identical to winter so far, heavy on the gulas light on the vegetables. surviving on apricots and strawberry sorbet - or zmirzilina as its rather fabulously called in slovak.
although reading all these articles about the decline of family dinners and people eating together in the UK made me think we could all benefit from a trip to small hungarian-slovak border towns. no-one would dream of missing the sit down family lunch.
andrea made vegetable soup and crumbed cauliflower for lunch yesterday, then we drove across the bridge to hungary to see Memoirs of Geisha.
Sumptuous and heartrending, I loved being transported so completely into another world, with its intricate rituals and deeply ingrained rules, all swept away in the path of war. but ending happily. sigh.
Then wandered the pesia zona, enduring the synth solos from a cover-band at the hollywood bar - never gonna dance again, and dont go changing, being the heights of his talent. watched the people go by, tanned and loose from their holiday in the sun, imbibing whatever the town has to offer.
miki and melinda took me on a tour of the spa-thermal baths, where all the pools are open now. favourite being the fake wave pool and - of course - huge outdoor spa.
settling into the rhythym of life here again, long hazy days and restless nights with moments of lucidity - really need one of those pens with a light for nocturnal scribbling - and questions of life and purpose bubbling through at odd moments. ah well, it may all make sense one day. or not.