Eger Castle (Egri Var)

... the defense of their town.  After a brief orientation and settle in we split off...some of us for lunch and to the castle etc.  I decided to take a peek at the famous Baroque Cathedral, Minorite Church, in the dobo Istvan Square.  It was ...

We took a daytip to the castle town of Eger, where we strolled its quaint streets and stopped into the local covered market to feast on a massive hamburger and a huge bag of cherries. Sebastian was nearly pick-pocketed in the town, which was a bit ...

... taken over the rest of Hungary finally forced the turks to leave. As can be seen in the fotos, many remnants of the turks are still left in the building designs etc. More about Eger can be found here:- ...

... and not really into walking about much. We did a quick scout around and decided against walking up the hill to see the castle. Instead we got two cold beers and did some people watching, much cooler hehe. It stormed that night and cooled things ...

... siege, with English descriptions. You see, probably the reason the old guy was so vain about being a pretend guard at Eger Castle was because it was the scene of a legendary Hungarian battle against the encroaching Ottoman forces. From reading the ...

... while he quickly took our passports, stamped them, handed them back and jumped off the train as it pulled away... (Phew!) In Eger Hungary, they are famous for their wines. In particular, one red wine called Egri Bikaver,(Bull's Blood.) We went in ...

... to explore the history of the area (surely not!), but more to discover for myself why the town is now famous within hungary - namely, one of the most prolific wine growing regions in the country, and home to the (allegedly) internationally famous Egri ...

... about Eger. All we knew about the place was that it was famous for a local wine called Bull's Blood which is sold all over Hungary - wine tasting is a good enough reason for a visit as any! We were met at the train station by a woman who was offering ...

  Yesterday Tina, my neighbor from Malaysia, and I got up super early to catch a ride to Eger, which is Hungary's version of wine country. One of the guys at work grew up there, and he offered to drive us this morning ...

... quirky and ever so cute, it had lots of little round 'houses' with thatched roofs (surprisingly a lot of houses in Hungary had thatched roofs, was almost like being back in Ireland). Apart from our Romanian neighbours we were the only campers there ...