Bratislava, capital of Slovakia

Divided into groups of 12, we experienced a home hosted lunch visit with a family here.  Although her husband was at work, he had built their outdoor patio, table, benches and wine cellar with his own hands~ inlaid marble pieces and beautiful wood!  Maria and her friend, Lydia served us homemade wine, homemade elderberry lemonade, ho

memade dumplings with Chicken Paprikish soup,  ollowed by 2 desserts: homemade ginger-chocolate cake topped with homemade cherry jam and chocolate sauce and homemade shortcake with blueberries and raspberries.  Also, they served freshly picked cherries. 
All delicious!  Maria’s children, 7, 9 and 12, retuned from school while we were there. They are now just now learning English but Russian was the language taught when Maria was in school.  





Christmas decorations here include tiny boxes of chocolates hanging on their trees. 

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