“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
Franz Kafka
Sunday
It is a beautiful day.
There has been quite a bit of doom and complaining recently.
After some meditation, it is time for a paradigm shift.
We make our way to Zërgë Coffeeshop for coffee and breakfast—the evidence of a hangover fading quickly.
It is either unusually busy or we are extraordinarily late.
“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
Susan Sontag
We walk back to the apartment and spend the morning reading in the atrium.
It is time for lunch. We stroll through the city. It is busy with tourists.
Arrive at our destination to find it closed.
We grab some pasta for lunch and an Aperol.
It is a fine sunny day and I feel like finding a table and drinking beer.
Sitting here in Budapest, drinking beer and reading my book, all the worries and concerns of returning to Dubai dissolve. Pausing in the moment does that. Or maybe I am just drink.
It works either way.
We open a 2013 Öreg Kiraly Dülo Mád Furmint bottle we picked up at MyWine. Exceptional at ten years old and perfect as a pre dinner drink.
Back to TATI Farm to Table for the last supper.
Cabbage strudel and goulash soup to start. Pork with peas and Lamb with mash for mains. A cottage cheese dumpling each to finish.
TATI has a slant toward natural wine which makes selecting a decent bottle a minefield.
The waiter suggests a 2019 Ég És Föld Közöt Cabernet Franc which is excellent.
We walk home in the late evening sun. Blue skies and cool breezes off the Danube. The weather forecast for Dubai tomorrow is 43 degrees – feels like 54 and I could not care less.
“What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.”
Salam Rushdie
