Szanticska

We spent the night in the smallest village of Hungary; Szanticska. Only 8 people live there. At one point, the youngest person was 67.

Before we got to our location for the night, we had to stop this unidentified building to see his "fat friend's" (pictured below) collections. We weren't told his friend's real name and when we asked what he collected, we were told "everything."

Some really cool old radios.

Ironic toys in English.

A vanity with wigs.

Old family photos.

Soup lunch at the farm we stayed at. Lunch was this soup, noodles with vegetables and bread as well as a small pasta dish with one little piece of meat in it. Dinner was a heavy soup of potatoes and sausage with bread, and breakfast the next day was bread, mustard, and sausage.

The pig pen that our room was right next to.

 I was a little disappointed that we didn't have bacon for breakfast. But I do know where those sausages came from!

You can tell by the cooking supplies that a lot of soups and stews are made. The winter months are cold and long, and the farmhouses don't have electric heat, so people need to use fireplaces, their stoves, and a lot of warm liquidy food to keep warm.

We saw these stray dogs all over the place. We though they were cute in their own scruffy way; some people even went so far as to pet them and play with them. Then we saw that they were chewing on this deer leg...

Here's the "fat friend."

I felt like I was in the Sound of Music or something in this area - it was so beautiful.

We were let in on a little secret that there is small amounts of silver in the ground.

The town's burgeoning used alcohol bottle collection; it goes really far back and fills many shelves.