August
2007
Lake St.Anna
This summer’s vacation began with a trip to Miercurea Ciuc / Csikszereda (pick your language), to Robi’s family. Timi, being the thoughtful girl she is, took care of her cat’s safety during the journey:
We spent the first evening there getting tipsy, eating rabbit with garlic and rosemary and reconnecting with Robi’s sisters and their husbands. A trip to the nearby Saint Anna lake was scheduled for the next day with much enthusiasm and we went to bed.
The lake’s known for the beautiful scenery surrounding it,
the fact that it’s formed in the cone of an ancient volcano,
the marshes nearby, home to one of the few carnivorous plants of the world, and for some the best Kurtos Kalacs Romania has to offer.
We had plans to grill sausages and make a few shish kebabs (known in Hungarian as Rablopecsenye or the thief’s roast) and so we rented a grill.
The boys were sent for the meat, left in the car at the entrance to the lake’s protected territory. By the time they got back though, a black cloud came out of nowhere and started pouring on us. Being the tough chicks that we are, we ignored it (while getting closer to the trunks of the bigger trees, but still), and went on with the preparations.
The ducks didn’t care much about the rain either.
Soon the food was ready, so we ate it standing and laughing at our growing resemblance to a pack of wet stray dogs. Of course, just after finishing the last bit, the rain stopped, and other types of birds went back to the lake themselves:
After cleaning the place and taking enough pics for a small art gallery, we decided it was time to go back home and so we did, stopping only to visit one of Robi’s great uncles and his wife, a guy old enough to have this picture on the wall:
And yes, that’s World War I ’s losing side.
Missed each other again. One day…