Contrary to the glorification given to those pale blood-suckers by author Stephenie Meyer, I opted out of spending my Easter weekend in Transylvania. Instead, Rock and I have saved some cash by getting out and seeing what the Hungarian country side has to offer. Yesterday, motivated by what I read on the website http://www.thehub.hu/, I convinced Rock to get on a train to Nagymaros/Visegrad to check out the 'Bend in the Danube' which is supposedly a beautiful place. And I'm sure that it is a beautiful place but based on what this website said, and what we found, it left some things to be desired. Needless to say, Rock and I decided to head to Holloko today on the suggestion of this same website. We rented a car (actually, the same fine vehicle that took us to Amsterdam and back) and drove the hour or so to the UNESCO World Heritage site to check out if their Easter Festival really is the best thing east of the Danube. Lured by the prospects of some truly great scenery and giving our cameras a work out (Rock's actually died there), we actually found the alluring thing to be the strange traditions that occur there. Apparently the community that lived in Holloko had a different culture than the rest of Hungary. On Easter it is customary for the boys to knock on girls houses and douse them in a bucket of water because they are virgins. I don't know what the purpose of this all is of course but its atleast fun to run around with a bucket of water and throw it on local kids. After this we ventured up to the castle and took some cool shots of us doing something that looks... salvation-y?
Us rocking out to some crappy song on our way to Holloko.
team Edward
ReplyDeleteI'm more of a Jacob person myself
ReplyDeleteYou know, if you included someone appearing as Jessica Simpson, and had her eating a hamburger in the back seat of the car, your own little video could be a hit!
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