Part 2 of 5

Chapter 2, visit to Mezokovesd

We picked Barbara up at 7am and headed toward Eger. She was nice enough to have packed sandwiches for the trip. As we left the M3 and headed into the mountains Barbara remembered reading about a small town with a cultural village of artists and crafters. The village was just off the main road south of Eger. We saw the sign, actually Barbara saw the sign and we headed toward Mezokovesd, a lovely small village with a concentrated area of original thatch roof houses that the owners open to the public certain weekends and as luck would have it, for Lisa and Barbara; this was one of the weekends. The houses are picturesque, some over 300 years old. Each of the dozen or so houses in the roughly 6 block area has a certain specialty exhibit, one was musical instruments and furniture, another was baskets and a third one we visited was a lady who weaves rugs, they were nice quality, fairly priced but ugly. In the house with the musical instruments I met Zsolt, one of several Zsolts we met on our trip. We had a nice impromptu jam session using the collection of instruments. He was astounded at my mastery of the Jaw Harp. We wandered around the village’s narrow streets, had some good pastry and a cup of coffee and headed toward Eger. It was a nice stop to see the village and the efforts to preserve both the houses and the local artists. Zsolt said he would call me to sit in on their next gig but he didn’t ask for my phone number, curious.