Evita and Lisa having a good time at Luppa

Evita and Lisa have a good time at a Luppa. Slavka's bikini promenade is a bonus.

Evitina promoce 1.01

Ve stredu mela Evita prvni promoci. Sice jeste bez akademickych poct, titulu a prislusneho diplomu, nicmeme je fakt, ze jeslicky uz uspesne vychodila. Uspech potvrdila pri hulakani madarskych prostonarodnich pisni a recitaci obdobne ladenych basni... [tady mel byt sarkasticky komentar o madarskych protonarodnich, ale nejak se mi to nepodarilo zformulovat]

Par fotek je v albu. 

Tour de Dolina II

Tentokrate jsme nebyli v tatranske doline, nybrz v Doline za Budapesti. Kousel od Luppy zacinaji podunajske ruralni latifundie a Dolina je jednou ze vstupnich bran. Jsou tam hlavne sady a v nich se pestuje nava podnikatelska disciplina - smaozber ovoce.
Co nasbirate do zaludku je gratis a co do kosiku je za babku. Vetsinou tam o sedme rano nabehnou podnikavci, kteri potom ovoce prodavaji u silnice. My se obvykle dotrepeme v pozdnim odpoledni a sbirame spis do zaludku nez do kosiku. Zatim jsme tak sklidili tak metrak jahod, momentalne poradame hromady merunek a broskvi a tesime se na hrozno. 

It is official: we've got a new gypsy wagon

We do not drive too often (the only exception being our daily trips to Lupa lake during the summer), but when we get to the car we usually make well over 600 kms over the next couple of days. Our favourite destinations explain this - Prague is 530, Brno 330, Kosice 290, Tatras 320 and Dolomites 1000. At the same time, travelling with the two priserkas is almost like moving. It takes between 4 (in summer) and 8 (typically in winter with skis and boots) trips to move all the stuff from the flat to the car (each trip meaning full load of a mule carried by me). So far our good old Skoda Octavia Combi could handle the family load, but little else. Number of seat turned out to be a real constraint - five was too little for a family of four with many friends. Now we have upgraded to 7 full seats (and the same space left for all our stuff). The new family member is called Fiat Ulysse (it is actually a French car sold under the Italian brand, which kind of fits with the Czech and Slovak family living in Hungary - we can not get these identities straight either).We hope for many thousands of happy kilometers ...

Dinner in Urban Jungle

It is hot. Very, very hot. After surviving the afternnon thanks to the clear cool waters of the Luppa lake, we are faced with the question where to go for dinner. Going home is OK most of the time, but not after we came from a long trip; the mess and little creatures is too explosive mix for our parental nerves. Going to a restaurant is OK most of the time, but not when is so very very hot. Moreover, there are not that many childern friendly places. Yesterday we camee up with an optimal solution - take away dinner on the one of the Danube islands in the heart of Budapest. As you can see by now we are fuly equipped... 

Academic season is over ...

... at least for me. After seminars in New York, Corsica, Brussels and Stanford, we are back home to family and writting business. That includes writting a dissertation and blogging in moments of desperation, when nothing clever seems to come to my mind. Today morning was actually about blogging ... again.

Nevertheless, if you can not benefit from our stories in the Czechoslovak newspeak our family uses to communicate, you can at least have a look at some pictures in our Google galery. 

Tour de Dolina

... Batizovska [čti batizouská], Furkotska, Mlynicka, Koprova, Mengusovska ... uz ty nazvy zneji pritazlive. Behem tydne v Tatrach se priserky venovali prababke, babke a dedkovi a my zase dolinam. Po dlouhe dobe jsme si rochnali blahem, ze muzeme svobodne chodit a nehlidat co kde ktera provadi ci kam zrovna pada. Vesele jsem si funeli hore kopcom, knikali dole a kochali sa dookola. Tatry nezklamaly a do mraky se schovaly az posledni den, kdy jsme cestou dolu pekelne zmokli.

Hromada dolin nam jeste zbyva na dalsi roky.

Pokochat se muzete s nami na par fotkach v galerii. 

Lupa a leto v Budapesti

Leto v budapesti je stejne priserny jako lete v kteremkoli jinem velkomeste. Snad jen prachu je tu vic a stinu mene. Ulice pripominaji rozpaleny kotel a vedrem se tetelici vzduch vyzene chladek i z pod nasich trimetrovych stropu. jednoduse k nepreziti.
Presto mame leto v Bude radi. Vysvetlenim zdanliveho paradoxu je existence Lupy - cistouckeho studeneho jezera pouhych 15 kilometru od naseho baraku. oficialne je to povrchovy lom na pisek a koupani je prisne zakazano. Prakticky je to bajecne koupaliste.
Jedinou zmenou oproti lonsku je vyssi hladina, ktera zaplavila nasi oblibenou plaz. Museli jsme zmeni lokal bliz civilizaci. Poprve se nas pokusil hrazny (ci jak se jmenuje ten deda, co hlida 100 m nejhezci plaze z 5 kilometroveho obvodu nazyva) vyhnat, ale nejak jsme mu nerozumeli. Dokonce i Evita pochopila hru a statecne se tvarila, ze madarsky nerozumi ani slovo. Po chvili ticha hrazny vzdal.

Jak si priserky chrochtaji na Lupe si moze pozriet v novom albe.