Hungary Travel Blogs

house ON the lake
Jul 31, 2008 (11 photos)

POLSKI: Gdy wstalismy o 8mej rano, na parkingu zostaly juz tylko 2 TIRy. Zjedlismy sniadanie, skladajace sie z chleba i napoju grejpfrutowego i poszlismy na wlot do parkingu, lapac stopa. Z tabliczka "Maribor--> Graz" zatrzymalismy TIRowca - Wegra, ...

Still in Szombathely
Aug 4, 2008 (10 photos)

... do lined up in a week's time in Slovakia. So after a couple of hectic weeks I think I'll relax here in Hungary... maybe practise my Hungarian a bit. Yesterday, everything went according to plan as Péter had to nip over to Austria for some reason so I ...

the other side of the lake
Aug 1, 2008 (14 photos)

POLSKI: Druga strona Balatonu okazala sie jeszcze bardziej turystyczna i skomercjalizowana, niz ta pierwsza. Nie poszlismy sie nawet kapac, bo wstep na plaze kosztowal od 300 do 600 forintow od osoby. Cale popoludnie spedzilismy na zmiane na lawce i ...

Another Day in Szombathely
Aug 5, 2008 (8 photos)

... -seeing. First stop - Roman ruins. Not much to see. Some old columns that have been restored. Apparently this part of Hungary used to be part of the Roman empire... with a completely different name of course. I think it was called Savaria. ...

Hungary At Last
Jul 27, 2008 (2 photos)

Well, I took a couple of photos here so I might as well give it a blog entry. Train from Vienna was pretty uneventful, but luxurious after all those hours in the bus. Not only was it uncomfortable but some bloke near me kept getting phone calls every ...

Sárvár
Aug 1, 2008 (3 photos)

... but we had another pretty long wait so we wandered around in town. Very nice castle. There are probably heaps of these around Hungary but they never fail to create a nice impression. Then off to the supermarket for some beer to take with us to the ...

Last Day in Szombathely
Aug 6, 2008 (9 photos)

Well, my last full day in Hungary. I thought it was a bit bizarre that there were so many golfers in town... young ones at that. But those bags that look like golf bags contain no golf clubs... they actually contain epees and sabres and the like. ...

Sótony
Aug 2, 2008 (5 photos)

In Sótony we were met by one of the Hungarian's (henceforth to be known as Péter) Esperanto students. This fellow is some sort of religion student and had to leave early to perfom a burial. You know you're in the countryside in central Europe when you ...

The East of the West & the West of the East
Feb 29, 2008 (35 photos)

... imbibed and were truly pleased with the fruits of this land.  As for dessert, we were surprised and thrilled to find Hungary's answer to tiramisu: Somlói galuska!  Oy Yoy Yoy!  While Su has been known to worship tiramisu above all other ...

Köszeg
Jul 30, 2008 (9 photos)

... this grand building. At one stage a seminary, later a hotel and now a seminary again. With all the churches in Hungary I suppose they need a huge seminary such as this one. Further down the hill was this mansion. I asked whether this belonged to ...

Hungarian ramblings....
Oct 25, 2007 (56 photos)

... old friend of mine has given me the name of this high energy woman who's heavily involved in environmental sustainability in Hungary .  I immediately contact her and we meet for a meal and an inspired discussion and she starts making calls and sending ...

Feasting on hospitality....
Nov 2, 2007 (58 photos)

... too long to load and I got impatient...but listen to them...these musicians were playing outside the palace of Buda in Hungary... But Now Were on to ROMANIA!! Pull in to Cluj-Napoca, find the hostel and within ten minutes this guy, who is ...

Budapest
Jul 16, 2005 (7 photos)

... . We wandered down to the National Museum of Hungary for a few hours. It was very interesting, especially the section on Hungary's communist era and involvement in the war. We walked down the road a bit, and I suddenly froze........ 'What's wrong ...

Lake Balaton
Apr 15, 2004 (10 photos)

I entered Hungary on Tuesday morning. Simple formalities. The Slovenians waved me through and the Hungarians simply flicked through my passport. Six km into Hungarz I arrived in the small town of Lenti. I only stopped long enough to get some florin and a ...

Szombathely - Monday
Jul 28, 2008 (9 photos)

Well, for a change there were a few things I wanted to check out at the IJK in the morning - namely, the Hungarian course and advanced Esperanto. I sussect the Hungarian course would have been a bit boring but I was curious. One of the other ...

Szombathely, Tuesday
Jul 29, 2008 (5 photos)

Changed hotels. My new hotel is much closer to the centre of town and much cheaper. Also very pleasant staff and a nice restaurant opposite. Again I was too late for the advanced Esperanto class. (yes, now that I've passed the exam in Rotterdam I'm ...

Budapest
Jul 27, 2008

Hello, I am now in Budapest Hungary. cheers, Lloyd

Sopron
Jul 28, 2008

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Budapest, Hungary
Apr 13, 2008 (25 photos)

... considering where we ate and how good the food was. It took a little while to realize that it was this good of a deal because Hungary still uses its original form of money, the forint. The conversion is about 160:1 USD so it's hard to do much more than ...

Budapest
Jan 14, 2004 (61 photos)

Jo napot kivanok, Budapest…an undiscovered Prague. I liked walking around this city. One reason - my chemically imbalanced travel partner got sick. So…I made good time on foot. Part of the beauty of Budapest for me was the abundant ...

Mandragera
Sep 1, 2007

Took a long but uneventful train ride from Prague to Budapest today after a teary goodbye to my mom who also left to go home to Long Beach.  Comfy 2nd class seats on the train.  Sat next to and across from two older German women who kept having ...

Thermal healing
Aug 21, 2007 (2 photos)

Damn thunderstorms in this city!!  It rained all morning and only started clearing just before midday, which was a real bummer as this was my last day in Budapest and there was still loads to see.  The thermal baths were the main agenda for the ...

The language is sumptuous, the food scrumptious
Aug 24, 2008 (18 photos)

... controls--this is it. -From Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand I took my third- and probably the last- overnight train to Budapest, Hungary.  I have been looking forward to Budapest for two reasons: 1) I get to travel alone for the first time in weeks ...

Sziget Festival
Aug 13, 2007 (28 photos)

As you can imagine, when you spend 7days at a festival a lot happens, so I'll give a short and a long version of what happened when we spent a week at the biggest festival in Europe. In short, imagine leaving 400,000 people on an island where the beer ...

Beautiful Budapest or I'm Hungry in Hungary
Aug 9, 2007 (85 photos)

Becky and I jump on the train to Hungary, which is thankfully only steps from our hotel in Vienna on Maria Hilfer Strasse. We arrive in a busy, dilapidated yet beautiful boned train station in Budapest a few short hours later. We decide to get cash from ...

Budapest
Aug 20, 2007 (4 photos)

Today was the longest travelling stint I would be doing over the 5 weeks: Ljubljana to Budapest via a 9 hour train journeyy.  The train was due to leave at 7,40am and arrive into Budapest Deli at 16,23.  I somehow managed to get an amazing ...

Full of Sziget
Aug 10, 2006 (46 photos)

... mood. There's haunting music just as you enter from the street and then the first room you go into, which outlines Hungary's history in the 20th century (from large empire to political pawn) with a crazy looping soundtrack that sounds like something ...

May I see your Visa please Ma'am?
Oct 14, 2005 (5 photos)

... ago she got a 6 month visa which pretty much covers most of Europe, but as she discovered at passport control, it doesn't cover Hungary. So she argued, she pleaded, she suggested random solutions, they took her into a back room. She came out and told us ...

Budapest, St Stephens Day
Aug 20, 2007 (10 photos)

A nice sunny day greeted me in the morning, so after a shower and some scran we headed out, planning on catching some of the air show around the Danube, and taking some sights in along the way, then seeing St Stephens hand parade, and finally winding ...

Szombathely, Thursday
Jul 31, 2008 (6 photos)

Today was the day of the so-called lingvo festivalo. Basically the participants in the IJK from different countries set up a booth and present their country or their language or maybe some food. The Russians might bring along a bottle of vodka and ...