Lillafured, Hungary Day 3 (Thursday May 28, 2009)

Lillafured, Hungary Day 3 (Thursday May 28, 2009)

This is our last day in Lillafured, Hungary. The weather the last two days has been overcast. Yesterday it sprinkled a little bit, but did not bother us. Today it did not rain.

Today we took a train near the Palota Hotel in Lillafured, Hungary to the top of a nearby mountain. There were lots of children at the train station and with the encouragement of their teacher sang a simple song of “Hello”. The Hirsch choir responded with the song “It’s a Small World Isn’t it”. The kids responded with a simple song of “Goodbye”.

The train stopped at the top of the mountain. Near the train stop was a children’s play area. Since we are all kids at heart some of the Hirsch family members regressed to their childhood and played on the equipment.

We then walked a short distance to a Trout Farm to have some lunch. We had fresh trout, with french fries. We ordered a salad with it, but got a plate of pickles.

We then walked over to a nearby iron works museum. As you may recall, the nearby city of Miskolc, that we visited yesterday, had iron ore and Lillafured, where we are now residing, had a forgery works to make metal objects from the iron ore. The museum is at the location of the old forgery. It required a large charcoal oven to make enough heat to melt the iron ore. This site also had a work house which used a water wheel attached to a large wooden pole for power to blow the large bellows into a fire and to hammer the metal into objects, such as plows, ovens and a variety of metal objects.

Brother-in-law, Peter Herczfeld, and cousin, Gordon Hirsch, walked the 2 KM down the mountain. The rest of us took the next train down the mountain. After a brief rest, we took a short walk near the hotel.

We ended the day with a dinner at the hotel. The group looked at the stately conference rooms in the hotel, took one more group photo and called, using Skype, Hildegard Hirsch, Lillian Herczfeld and Peter Hirsch’s mother and relative for all the other of the group. We complete the last day in Lillafured. Tomorrow we go back to Budapest.