Then we were taken outside of the city to Visegrad Castle, which overlooks the Danube. At this castle, we experienced a medieval dinner and show which was inspired by actual Hungarian medieval traditions. There was archery, falconry, and even dueling, followed by a delicious meal. I have a previous article that goes into much more depth (https://www.reachtheworld.org/kylas-journey-hungary/traditions/medieval-dinner-and-show-visegrad-castle).
The following month we went on a trip to Debrecen and the wine country. During this trip we visited the Reformed Church and the local museum, and along with the nearby university. The following day we went to a local wine cellar and got to see part of a fall festival and parade. While I wasn’t a huge fan of the location (it was actually in a cellar and was very musty and hard to breathe), the food was very interesting. It was pork meat that was cooked inside a loaf of bread. It is called Csülkös Kenyer, which means knuckled bread, which refers to knuckled pork. It was a heavy meal that was filling for the rest of the day.
The next Fulbright program was where we went to the space exhibition and met the most recent Hungarian astronaut, Tibor Kapu, his back-up Gyula Cserényi, and Dr. Ferencz Orsolya, who is the Commissioner for Space Research. We learned all about the space training and how excited the Hungarian people were to have someone at the International Space station. The exhibit was also really fascinating with life-sized models of the space station available for people to walk through and explore.
