Bear's Garlic Weekend

We have a hiking group called RangerCommando (KószaKommandó in Hungarian), and with the spring coming, we are on our way almost every weekend. These are mostly only one-day-programs with a not-always-so-easy walk of around twenty kilometers (including at least one pub on our way) in some woods near Budapest, but not always.

Last year the group started the tradition of the "Bear's Garlic Weekend": bear's garlic is a great favourite of some, and it grows in big amounts near Pécs, which is the second city of Hungary in the number of native tolkienists.

So we travelled to Pécs by car on Friday, spent the Saturday with hiking and collecting this thing, laughed on local legends in the evening, walked around the city on Sunday, and came home after that. For the nights we were hosted by the parents of our local members, who were all extremely nice to us, made delicious meals, and some of them even joined the hiking (to be correct: they were the leaders, knowing best the ways around).

Oh, and this weekend being the one before Tolkien Reading Day, during the "walk in the city" we could also visit the little Tolkien-exhibition prepeared for the next day in the local library :)