I found a new market near our apartment yesterday. Actually it's quite old, but a new one to me and probably my favorite so far in our part of the city. I'd seen the building before in the evening and thought it was just another beautiful old building ruin in an unpolished working class neighborhood. Yesterday I walked by when it was open and was surprised by the colorful world of bright produce, hanging meat and bakery stands inside. Many of the old buildings housing the main markets around the city were demolished and rebuilt more recently without any patina. The Hunyadi ter market is small compared to some of them, but the vendors inside made me
want to frequent the place, never mind the prices. I recently fell into a habit of shopping at the grocery stores and as a result it's been harder to stay within our budget. Here on the other hand, I bought a few days worth of food (pictured) at the Hunyadi ter market for around 1400 forint (USD $7), during which I was surrounded by the romanticized Budapest of my imagination.
2 comments:
That market looks wonderful - and you know how I like farmers markets. Nice that you found that.
By the way, and this is off subject, someone told me that the Finnish language and the Hungarian Language are related. Have you heard that?
-BigSis
The way I heard it (about the language) is that Hungarian and Finnish are from the same family of languages but are distantly related enough that the the only thing mutually recognizable would possibly the the cadence of it being spoken, and not much else.
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