Week 1: Vác - The bringing together of 2 Marafko lines

A lot happened in that first week. The thing is that everybody works during the weekdays and I was very aware that everyday that Feri was with me, he wasn't earning, driving his taxi. So I pre-arranged a meeting with Magdus Schulcz, a Marafko female married to Toni (Anton) Schulcz. All Feri had to do is to drive me to Vac in the morning, I would stay the night and return by train back to the West End station (Nugáti pálya). No problems.
Magdus represented the first of the Vác-Nagymaros Marafkos that stemmed from Lazarus who was born in hometown Hidaskurt - now Mostova in Slovakia in 1857. These Váci Marafkos almost forgot their origins and it was through me and some intensive work on the net that I could now physically bring both lines together.
Magdus and Toni were very gracious and took me to so many places, I quickly got lost. The GPS function in my camera and some facebook postings helped me out here. Part of this was the result of being in a stranger in an almost strange land. Although I was in Hungary in 1979, it was so long ago that my memories had faded enough. They were also the first pensioner couple I stayed with and they live in an apartment block in the city of Vác, rather than an older 'porta' or house with garden and orchard.
Some pics:

The Carpathian Church near Vác

The Turul Bird carrying man(kind).

Grassalkovich's Palace in Gödöllő - He had a few. There's another one of his in Bratislava, now being used by the President of the Slovak Republic.

Gödöllő

And of course the Cukrászda - A unique Hungarian style patisserie and coffee shop. Here we see one of my favourites - the "Francia Krémes" or French Cream slice. This particular Cukrászda had one of the best.

There are a lot more pictures and we will return to Magdus and Toni later on. As the week ended, I became eager to visit my closest cousin Gabor who lived in the SW corner of Hungary.