Just off the main road in the village of Orvenyes is a watermill and agricultural museum - the old guy who ran it was a real collector of Hungarian farm tools and in a weird mix of Hungarian and English, as well as some German, we seem to have been able to have a conversation to understand most of what he was trying to explain about the mill, the tools and the life of a miller. Needless to say, I doubt that the Hungarian for Hoe and Plough will be too much use in the preparation of medai plans later this year but you never know!!
The mill only stopped working in the late 1980s, just before the wall came down and had been in operation for over 150 years and was a great piece of engineering, even if we didn't understand all the technical terms in full.
Next to it was a funky looking pizza oven although I am not sure if the Trabant was the delivery vehicle of choice :)
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