MORE EUROPE PICTURES

1) Listening to musicians at Kisfaludy Haz, the restaurant overlooking Lake Balaton.
2) Appetizers - goose liver (the brown stuff), goose grease (on top), paprikas (sliced on bottom). Something I learned is that the cure for burning lips and mouth, due to a piping hot paprika, is goose grease.
3) Overlooking Lake Balaton, and the vineyards, from Kisfaludy Haz.
4) Doing some wine-tasting. I'm attentively listening to "my translator" - thus the weird look. The "wine guy" is holding what they call a stealing pumpkin. In the old days, an old hollow pumpkin with a long stalk was used for the purpose of taking wine out of the barrels and displacing into drinking glasses.
5) Tihany Abbey.
6) Overlooking Balaton from a great view atop hillside at Tihany Abbey.
7) The "Paprika House" in Tihany. Paprikas hanging on the outside of the building are drying out.
8) Buda Castle.
9) A McDonalds in the train station next to our hotel. The train station was designed by Eiffel (the same guy that designed the tower in France). Funny to have a McD's in there. I ventured over for a few "Shrekka" ice creams late at night.
10) Getting served some schnitzels at Figlmuller.
11) St. Stephen's in Vienna. One of the most famous landmarks in the city.
12) Hungarian protesters in Vienna. This was very embarrassing to our colleagues. The protesters claimed that they had to protest in Vienna, because they were not given such freedom in Hungary. I know this is not true, as I have seen many protesters outside of the Parliament building in Budapest. They are perfectly free, however, many of them are simply drunkards who are looking for some fun with other drunkards - giving all the protesters a bad name.