I'm honestly over the moon with this one! My Secret Santa must have read me mention in my bio that I'd like something personal, local, traditional (that kinda thing), and really took it to heart.

Lo and behold, I receive a weighty package full to the brim with Hungarian delights, information and TEA - all covered by a lovely personal letter. Turns out that we have some common interests too, I really struck gold with this one.

There was Hungarian chocolate (both premium and more common), nuts, cured meat (a personal favourite), flavoured rooibos tea, chocolate gingerbread biscuits, chocolate covered plums (which are sort of a national fruit apparently), a 3-month subscription to a tea delivery service, a local beer, some of the Unicum herbal spirit, two books on Hungary and Hungarians AND a bar of soap home-made by my SS' mother at home.

I can't believe the effort that my SS put in to the thinking and preparation of this present, and I'll be sure to pay the kindness forward in the future.

MANY thanks to my Secret Santa, wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!