A day in Gyula

My favorite meal this week was on Friday with the Jokai soup (Jokai Bableves). It is a bean soup with the Bekecscaba delicious sausage. for the main course I got the paradicsomos kaposztapozelek. I think. Basically tomato soup with enormous meatballs in the middle. Surprisingly, the meatballs tasted quite a bit like the meatloaf from yesterday. The tomato soup had all sorts of veggies inside as well. It was a refreshing meal after the nuttella gumbotz the day before.

On Saturday I received the only option of soup which was csirkeaprolekleves. (I later found out that it is basically soup with all the chicken parts in it). After seeing the chicken claw, my appetite was gone. I tried eating just the noodles and peas, but it all just tasted like chicken foot especially since the noodles kind of resembled the texture of the foot. The main course was fustolt-sajijtal baconnal toltott csirkemell, also know as bacon and cheese stuffed chicken and rice. I'm pretty sure this chicken would have tasted twenty times better if I hadn't seen its foot in my soup.

After dinner on Saturday, I took off for Gyula- pronounce Dee-oo-lah, or that's what I think they are saying. Obviously I struggle at taking selfies, but here I am riding through the neighborhood on my bike

This is what they call "Centrum." Basically the center of Gyula. There's all these fountains and tons of people taking pictures in their model poses.

 

This clock is really cool. It shows the time of all the time zones and evidently it works according to the sunlight (We came one time at night and it wasn't working)

Here's the first church I got to go inside. There were all sorts of decorations inside- little bows and stuff- that made me assume that it was someone's wedding day. Hopefully.

 

After about a twenty minute bikeride from Bekecscaba, I arrived at the castle of Gyula. It's super close to the centrum and easy to find. They have a nice path on the outside and a fascinating museum on the inside. Each room had a nice display of what it may have looked like during those days. In one of the pamphlets it said that at one time there were about 50 families living in the castle. This is incredible especially since the middle of it is quite open. Maybe they had the families camping out inside the castle. Or maybe they were talking about miniature people.

Fortunately, they had all the captions for the exhibits written in fairly decent English. "After reading this card, please take it into the case again

 This stairway takes you up to the top of the castle. It made me dizzy going up and I kept hitting my head on the stairs on my way down.

 Below: from the top of the castle. One of my favorite things is looking out on the city and seeing all the red roofed houses.

After I visited the castle, I knew it was time for some gelato and cake. They have some of the best sweets in Gyula- or so I have heard. I was just hoping that it wasn't pig jello on the top of my cake