By the way, had lost 2,5kg but gained it all back during the long weekend....

Dinner at home on Tuesday

Vegetable soup

Beef with Hungarian lecso type vegetable sauce

- both very tasty!

Beauty treatments

After the wine tasting weekend needed some beauty treatments!

Facial at Marionnaud

Westend

- Kriszti made a perfect treatment to fade away dark circle under the eyes!

9.900,-ft app. 1 hour

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Pedicure & back massage at Compagnia

Andrássy út 76 (next to da Pippo)

- Ágnes made both treatments

- got rid of the headache

5400,-ft

pedicure 1h20mins, back massage 1/2hour

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On Monday bought the new DVD of Sex and The City Movie

Saturday in Pécs

Tünde, our favourite waitress,had a breakfast shift on Saturday.

Told that it is possible to order ham & eggs, omelette, scramble eggs...

After breakfast went to Pécs for a day.

App. 35km from Bonyhád.

Former mosque


Pedestrian street in the centre of the town


National Theatre
...

Bought some mint marziban at Szabó Marcipán
- hardly ever found anything with mint in Hungary!
Szabó Marcipán
7621 Pécs, Király utca 8
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Visited to Zsolnay museum

Zsolnay vases in the museum garden

Beautifull Zsolnay tiles

More vases in the garden ....
Visited also to Csontváry Kosztka Tivadar Museum to see his spectacular paintings
(1853-1919)
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Catedhral in Pécs



Locks on the gate of City Hall


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Lunch at Bistro Zona
Salad Nicoise with tuna fish
with a glass of white wine
- very tasty!



Bistro Zona
7621 Pécs, Király utca 14
http://www.jtrestaurants.hu/
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Zsolnay is seen also in the landmarks of Pécs

Pittoresque old houses

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Dinner at Villa Weber

Cheff Sergio had repaired the following:
Camberotti con salsa pomodoro, pollenta

Spaghetti with salmon

&

Risotto with scampi

Sunday morning left Villa Weber to Budapest.

Lovely weekend!

Wine tasting

Had booked a car and a chauffer for the day.

After breakfast left for wine tasting.

First stop at Fritz Borhaz at 10.30.

Really welldone and good-looking cellar

Bottles of white wine

Big terrace for summer time dinners

...
Tasted 2 white, 1 rosé and 2 red wines

Bought a case of Kadarka fehér 2007

- kadarka is a red grape, so this wine was made without the red peels

just the juice of the grapes

...

Highly recommended wine cellar

Fritz borház és panzió

http://www.fritz-tanya.hu/

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Before lunch had time to walk around in Szekszárd

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Streets of Szekszárd

Autumn vegetable at the market place

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Lunch at Szász étterem & söröző

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Bodri pincészet és szőlőbirtok was the afternoon's wine tasting place.

Tasted 2 white, 1 rosé and 2 red wines with cheese & walnuts.

Bought a case of Szekszárd Bikavér 2005 and Pinot Noir 2007
Dr István Bodri himself introduced us to Bodri wines

7100 Szekszárd, Vitéz utca 1.

www.bodribor.hu

...

Before the dark had a little time to enjoy the lake view

Dinner at Villa Weber
Chef Sergio had made lasagne & asparagus risotto

Villa Weber

Margit Bridge with Hungarian flags

23rd October is a holiday in Hungary.

Allready on 22nd Oct. the city was ready for the big day - flags everywhere.

...

Before noon left to Bonyhád near Szekszárd for a long weekend.

Had booked a room at Villa Weber in Bonyhád

http://www.villaweber.hu/

The hotel has 21 rooms, apartments and a suite.

The spa will be open in spring 2009.

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The entrance hall

The bathrooms are made beautyfully with blue mosaics

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Lunch at Villa Weber

Actually late lunch, arrived there late afternoon

Vegetable soup in Genova style

- with pesto

A glass of Harslevelu white wine

The cheff is Italian, so it tells something about the level of the food

The service was friendly and professional

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The restaurant outside

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Saw also 2 horses!

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Autumn leaves in the garden of Villa Weber

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Had a walk nearby before the dark.

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Dinner at Villa Weber

Pan-fried mozzarella with blackcurrant jam

Pumkin risotto

Tiramisu

- excellent dinner!

Shocking experience

Missed the opera on Wednesday evening!

Had a ticket to Tosca but couldn't go because feeling quite bad.

Probably because of an incident that happened earlier on that day:

was walking on Margit Island wearing a pair of loafers without socks

and

suddenly a mouse walked over my bare left foot!

After half an hour or so got a headache and stomache.

Had to cancell all meetings for the afternoon.

Shocking experience!

Sunday Brunch

Sunday Brunch at Le Meridien

Nice to try another place after so many times at Marriott's brunch.

Good service

Food ok - especially the dessert buffet.... visited there several times...

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A piece of Le Meridien cake and crepe with whipped cream

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A facial at Beauty Box on Monday

35mins in infra-sauna

&

Ultra-sound massage and a mask

- Vera had left the company so a new girl called Niki made the facial

- felt totally like a new person after the treatment!

...

- was quite tired and fed up because of an awfull morning:

woke up early to be ready for the on-line ticket sales for Metallica's 2 concerts in Helsinki next June but

was log off from the system 6mins before the sales started... haven't felt that furious and disapointed for ages.

Lost the chance to get any tickets for Vienna....

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Got tickets for Copenhagen for July 20, 2009

and that's probably the best place in Europe to see Metallica!

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Dinner at home on Tuesday

Tuna salad

Stroganoff

with oven-baked potatoes with a hint of garlic

Dinners

Have tried to be on really low calory diet for the whole week- and succeed in it.
But on weekends it is a different story...

Dinner at home on Friday

Broccoli soup - without cream

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Chataubriand with green salad

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And a glass or so of Chablis 2006
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Dinner at home on Saturday

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A Glass of Varichon & Cleac Privilége Blanc de Blanc

- excellent

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Crayfish cocktail

with a glass of Chablis 2006

Chataubriand with gratinated Roquefort

and

sauted garden peas

with a glass of Robert Skall Syrah 2005

- extreamely soft - good choice!

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Did some shopping at Bestsellers

1051 Bp, Október 6 utca 11.

Bought a book called " The World's Best Restaurants"

- interesting -

and some British interior magazines.

Went also to Ikea and Culinaris and found some things at both places...