The Kapos River

The photo above is of the mighty Kapos River/Kapos folyó, running through town…although, here in Hungary, the word for river, folyó, and lake, tó, is never appended to the river or lake alluded to…the River Danube is called simply, Duna; Lake Balaton is Balaton, the river Kapos is no more than Kapos on the maps…I think it is because in the Hungarian language the subject is already understood, no need for the adjective (I hope I am describing this correctly)…another example of this: there is no gender pronoun in Hungarian; no ‘he, she, it’…from the context of the sentence/conversation, who you are talking about is understood…this causes much consternation with our family learning English, trying to parse the ‘he’ from the ‘she;’ the ‘her’ for the ‘him’…so much for your grammar lesson for today.

Kaposvár, where I am now, means the ‘castle gate’ (kapu = gate; vár = castle)…and I’ve often wondered where the castle was located…near where I’m standing, taking this photo, I found a sign saying that the remains of the castle were discovered close-by, during an excavation for a new building…on my next foray, I will explore and see if the foundation was preserved.

More later. David