Nimrod Pihenohaz
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Bulls blood? Yes please!
... went back to one place and bought 2 bottles of semi-sweet, to another and filled up a 2 litre plastic bottle with bulls blood. In total, this little excursion including tastings and purchases cost us NZ$20. Winning! We braved the quiet town again. There is nothing more awkward than being the only patrons in a restaurant, or approaching a restaurant when its absolutely empty. We found a pizza cafe, which had...OMG 2 other people inside! Easy ...
The Valley of the Beautiful Women
... troops. Beards stained with wine and judgement supressed, they fought viciously. The Turks looks at their stained beards and fighting fury, and naturally arrived at the conclusion that the Eger troops must be drinking bulls blood. They were so frightened that they packed up and went home. By the time we got to the Valley it was about 430pm. We walked around the cellars, dug into the soft rock in a horseshoe shaped street. The rock stays at a ...
Eger
Arrived in Eger today - a small town of ONLY 60,000 people. I should also mention that it was a balmy 38 degrees here - goodbye Melbourne winter, hello ridiculous tan line. Spent the day having a wander around the town (having pre and post lunch ice cream) before heading off to the Valley of Beautiful Women for wine tasting. Hungary is famous for its "Bull's blood" wine which has to have a mixture of at least 3 different types of grapes to be considered this type of ...
The Basilica and The Library
... coming out of the Basilica, we walked over to the Library. The library's furniture was made by a carpenter from the Eger area. Carved and gilded oak provides a warm atmosphere where to sit and read (although the books are so old here they can only be handled by gloved hands). The Library was opened in 1793 and today holds over 160,000 volumes of theology, philosophy and social sciences. The ceiling ...
We found an Internet Cafe!
... was. We also found Abigail, who helped us immensely in showing us where the cemetary was and finding Jozsef, who opened up the Church and led us in deciphering the Family Directory. We were able to find a listing of marriage between Pal Puhl and Julianna Rudics, who we discovered were married at ages 23 and 18, respectively.
While waiting at the bus stop to head back to Eger, Jozsef and his family stopped by, picked us up, ...
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