Well Kapus Feri (my cousin and taxi driver) turned up late on Monday 3rd June and I've got 3 weeks left in my trip. I'm counting the days, not because I was tired, but because I still had too much to do.
I had previously set up a 2nd meeting with Marafko Laci at his home overlooking Budapest. I was eager to meet with him again, bought flowers, chocolates and wine for him and his wife and late evening, we turned up after a long trip back from Slovakia.
As I had said before, he was an editor and reporter for a major newspaper and we hit it off well on the first meeting way back in week 1.
Here are some of his archived pics in the field. His mission was to go to North Vietnam during the war and report back to the newspaper. Just as a reminder - the North Vietnamese were Soviet friends at the time:
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| City scape - North Vietnam - Marafko Lazslo |
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| North Vietnamese girls training with semi-auto rifles. |
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| Jane Fonda signed this for him when he met her in North Vietnam. |
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| North Vietnamese woman - his translator - Marafko Lazslo. |
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| Bombed out building - North Vietnam - Marafko Lazslo. |
All Images Copyright by Marafko Lazlo 2013 - Please contact me to seek permission to use.
After some delicious cake and other nibbles, some nice wine and palinka, we began talking about my Hidaskurti visit. He produced the following photo:
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| The Marafko Clan 1904 - my line of the family. At least 2 brothers here - one is my grandfather Karoly. |
This was taken at the Marafko workshop in Hidaskurt. There must be lots of photos like this - but I didn't find them.
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