This past weekend, the Hungarians resurrected the traditional Vágta - best translated as 'gallop' in English - in the hopes it will find a place on the EU's list of not-to-be missed summer events. All the counties in Hungary had stalls promoting their wines, crafts, etc., and on Saturday evening the Horseriders Theatre presented a fine production of some hungarian tale which lots of folks seemed familiar with... definitely took us back at least a 100 years to Hussar love triangles, village witches and jesting town criars. One truism about this country is that people are expert in organizing large events and aim for as much grandeur and innovation as possible... ok, putting a cow-on-spit in Kids' World was probably a bit over the top.... In the riding sequences, you'll see the parading of the jockeys (6 per race) as well as a bit of race action, all under the towering bronzes of Arpad, founder of the nation, with his band of pagan horsemen who came here from Central Asia. These cultural roots are more than obvious in some of the costumes and in the yurts.
i've created 2 slide shows, once from Saturday (i got there in the late afternoon) and the other from Sunday (it was hot, crowded, impossible to see the races if you weren't right up on the fence, so i left around 16h). Click on the individual slide show, it will open up a new window, then click on gallery>slideshow/diarama and you should get a full screen show. Right now, there are no captions; i'll try to write some as time permits, but likely only if people ask for them - I have been away from the blog and there are many, many other things i want to rant on now that my focus and energy for it have returned. In the meantime, enjoy the visuals!!!
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