Hungary
Travel Blogs from Hungary
house ON the lake
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
... Esperanto 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 ...
the other side of the lake
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
... sight-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 ...
Hungary At Last
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
... 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
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
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 ...
The East of the West & the West of the East
... 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
... was 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 ...
Hungary?
Hi everyone Well it's wonderful to be back in the familiar European setting. We flew from Moscow yesterday and it was an awfully long day of travelling. I was kept amused in all the duty free shops comparing prices for skincare and cosmetics while Daniel ...
Hungarian ramblings....
... 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 ...
Feasting on hospitality....
... 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 ...
The Blue Danube
... walk-on' only passengers ferry jetty. So we poured ourselves a cuppa and met up with 4 very colourful Dutch ladies on holiday in Hungary for 2 weeks. They were full of their tales of travels and had been traveling together for 3 or 4 years as they were ...
Hot Budapest
... 3 hour trip. Our guide Ildikon (Hildegard in German) Kiss showed us two marvelous stop offs at St Stephen's Basilica. Stephen was Hungary's first king and the Basilica was named after him; and The Hill of Gellert which looks over all of Buda and Pest, ...
Leaving Slovakia
... Slovakia, so we manage just one more coffee break and lunch in a couple of those pretty spots before we cross the border into Hungary. I also had to mail a few post cards with Slovakian stamps on them. When I asked a couple of local lasses where the ...
Undiscovered Prague
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 ...
Szombathely - Monday
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
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
... easy. 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 ...
Thermal healing
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 ...
May I see your Visa please Ma'am?
... 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 ...
Sziget Festival
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
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 ...
The language is sumptuous, the food scrumptious
... 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 ...

