Soak up the remnants of the sun and boost the annual amount of goose roast consumed around the second weekend of November before the 40-day Advent fast and shopping spree. An army of St. Martin's Day culinary and cultural events, feasts and wine dinners are up ahead, and you can also attend the birthday party of Hősök, or a moonlit walk.

Wednesday and Thursday

Today in Veszprém, you can encourage handball-players, including star László Nagy at the MKB-MVM Veszprém - HC Meshkov Brest handball game. 

The winner of your choice at Nyitott Balaton's vote of your favourite Balaton restaurant that stays open in the winter, Kistücsök in Balatonszemes is also ready for St. Martin's Day, which means that you're again facing a difficult decision: goose sausage and celery salad with apple or orange-spiced goose soup with matzo dumplings or goose risotto? The new menu is up today.

Friday

Pálinka Festival - Siófok (07-09/Nov)

Before, during and after goose meals, drinking is serious issue in Siófok under the aegis of the 6th all-weekender Pálinka Festival that begins on Friday. Also, you can find abundant St. Martin's Day food and drink almost everywhere around Lake Balaton on this weekend.

St. Martin's Day Goose Days - Köveskál (07/Nov)

The St Martin's Day Goose Days at the Miakő restaurant in Köveskál also begin on Friday. In the frame of the event, the 11-course menu is filled up wih goose dishes, like foie de gras roasted on apple, served with home-made brioche, in Othello sauce.

Hősök birthday in Veszprém (07/Nov)

The weekend fun in Veszprém, city of Queens begins with a real beat-pumping birthday - the birthday band Hősök takes the stage of the Expresszó Club. Those who'd prefer silence as opposed to the rumble of the city, should check out the Moonlit Excursion.

Moonlit Excursion - Rezi (07/Nov)

The destination of this 8.5-km tour is the Castle of Rezi, where you can roast your bacon at the campfire in the light of the full moon. The minimum number of participants is 10 persons, so register in time to enjoy this off-the-wall experience!

Saturday

Goosing around Lake Balaton - St. Martin's Day wine dinners (08/Nov)

Siófok, Köveskál, Vonyarcvashegy, Badacsony, Veszprém, Keszthely, Gyenesdiás, Kötcse, Balatonfüred, Zamárdi, Badacsonytomaj, Hévíz, Káptalantóti, Felsőörs, Balatonalmádi, Zalakaros
Tradition has it that you'll be rewarded with good crop and a great feast if you eat the back end of a goose on St. Martin's Day, 11 November. There are enthusiastic people who'll hold dress rehearsals on Saturday: there will be numerous wine dinners (usually accompanied by new wine tastings) under the sign of St. Martin at Lake Balaton. There will be a goosey new wine tasting at the Gutman Winery in Kötcse, where you can also get a taste of wine jam in pancakes; and of course Badacsony is also a great destination, where you can fork in stove-roasted goose legs and pumpkin-chocolate cakes to soak up the wines in the frame of the Martin, Laposa and Goose Weekend event.

South shore's ultramodern Ax&Ax Winery moves to Vonyarcvashegy for one night, where the chefs of Bock Bistro Balaton will concoct such dishes to accompany the wines of Kötcse, like the foie de gras with wasabi dip or the pink goose breast with honeyed turnips. In Balatonalmádi, the Kerekes Winery starts with cold goose appetizers and a goose soup, which you can spoon in with porcini pockets, right before turning to the stove-roasted goose leg served with mashed potato with onion and rosé braised cabbage,  and the dessert surprise by the vintner's wife. In Balatonfüred, the Koczor Winery holds a wine tasting accompanied by many goose delicacies - what else. The wineries and restaurants of Zamárdi, Hévíz and Káptalantóti will also be St. Martin's positive and busy.

You can participate in a communal goose roast in Gyenesdiás, where the dinner with music will be accompanied by a lantern-lit parade and a surprise show in the frame of the Green Night; while Felsőörs holds a traditional St. Martin's Day Feast to mark the end of autumn farm works.

Ziege Fishing Tournament - Tihany (08/Nov)