Many years ago I worked in Vernon, CA (LA Area) for a glass shop/automotive wholesaler. Vernon has some of the biggest slaughterhouses in the United States. Farmer John slaughtered 300+? pigs a day
Livestock tractor/trailer trucks were lined up all day and you could smell the stink of fresh kill carried by wind all day for a mile. Shit on the killing floor and guts (endtrails) in dump trucks heading for rendering plants to become dog and cat food and soap.
900,000-square-foot plant on a ten-acre site near downtown Los Angeles
I was in Budapest a while back, that is the Hungary I visited. But I took the train from Prague to Budapest and saw a lot of small farms and towns. From your pictures they are living in the past.
Hungary is in the far east of Europe and saw the invasion of the Mongols. I spent the day on the Danube with some friends there. I saw the Buda Castle and the Hungarian National Parliament building from a ferry on the Danube.
Budapest was not a culture shock - a large European city, charming stone architecture, but I am sure the country towns were. The working class parts of the city were like other eastern block cities I have been to in Europe -- they took me to Tesco's to get some foodstuffs for my studio apartment in the central city I rented.
It was in a building above a store and atrium-plaza.
I had a nice time in Hungary. The Magyar tongue is very difficult as it not Latin base language -- maybe a bit akin to Bulgarian in its uniqueness?
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