Do you know the movie “Duplicity” with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen? There is a scene with Clive Owen at a cafe with, as she is otherwise credited, a “stunning blonde” whom you see below.

She doesn’t know it, but I have been sleeping on her floor for the past week. My friend, Peter,  rents out her old apartment from her father as office space.   Actually, it is either hers or her sister’s, he isn’t 100% sure, but if it is hers, she is two years older than what she claims because the code to get into the building is her birth year.

Despite this, I am now house-sitting for some friends while they are on vacation. It’s a very welcome change just to be able to cook for myself as I had been eating muesli and sandwiches everyday.   I celebrated by having penne with spicy horse sausage and smoked cheese.

Clockwise, You are looking at smoked pork, horse sausage, smoked cheese, and juhturo, loosely defined as “ewe cottage cheese”. The smoked pork is incredibly good, and costs about US$4.00 a pound (US$9.00 a kilo). The horse I got for about US$2.25 a pound/US$5.00  a   kilo.
Horse meat is a funny thing here. I only see it at some butchers and the big fresh food markets as sausage or salami, and I suspect only old people eat it. Horse is apparently quite lean, high in protein, and I can promise you it is very tasty. In America horse meat has almost vanished. In California it’s illegal, and the last slaughterhouse in the country that processed it for export was hounded out of business by do-gooders.

The big fresh food markets seem to be vanishing from Budapest, too.   Sadly, lots of the old markets such as those on Batthyany and Klauzal Squares have been taken over by big supermarkets.

I think the last time I lived alone was in 1994 for  two or three months which only goes to show that I travel too much.   I am not used to it.    The best thing about being alone is no one can hear me scream when I try and figure out the HTML and CSS for my website redesign.