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The annual Wine Festival in Szeged took place from May 17th to May 26th. It was also Whit Monday, so I decided to go on a vacation for the remaining four days of the week. I planned to go swimming every day, get a nice tan and drink a lot of wine. You know what they say about best laid plans... The week before the forecast was not good. Showers and cold, but I stayed hopeful that it wouldn't come true. Well, apparently, when I really don't want them to be right, they are. I left Budapest on Friday. In the morning I thought of only going in sandals, but in the end I packed a pair and went in my Adidas trainers. Best decision ever. By the time the train arrived to Szeged, it wasn't just raining there. It was a proper thunderstorm with lightning. So I grabbed a taxi home, at which point I realised I should have packed more cash, because I gave my last pieces to the taxi driver. The following three days were nice though. On Saturday we went to Flabelos, then had a

I went to a graduation to Debrecen. It was my cousin's daughter's, Panni's. She graduated a bilingual high school and would like to go on to study at the local university. The graduation itself was like all the ones I've ever been to. Boring. We stood out on the school grounds in the blazing sun. The kids wore black suits, poor things. So we stood in a circle, and the kids stopped in front of us with their backs to us. There was of course the headmaster talking, then singing, poems, more singing. The speech was okay, only(!) 15 minutes. The poems I didn't listen to. They did sound really depressing though. The songs were delivered by a half-dead chorus. There is supposed to be a singing  specialisation  at the school. If this is the quality they have... Then they started giving out all sorts of awards. There was one girl, who did pretty much everything, the little  overachiever .  We left after a while. Our feet were hurting, and I was developing nausea fro