Hotel Aqua Eger
Maklari u. 9 Eger, 3300, Hungary
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Eger and the Valley of the Beautiful Women
... larger Turkish Army. According to the tale, the soldiers from Eger stained their clothes, beards, and skin with the Bull's Blood wine before battles. The Turks then began to believe that the defenders were gaining their strength by drinking the blood of bulls. That's where the name 'Bull's Blood' wine came from.
Anyways, back to the trip. We visited the Basilica, it was very pretty! We also went to the Eger Castle. It ...
Wine in a coke bottle
Arrived in Eger and trekked 2km in scorching heat to our quaint hotel. We've become quite used to long walks with our packs! What a great place. Our hotel room was a lot bigger than we expected and right in the middle of town. Eger is so cute. Cobblestone roads, gorgeous churches and a nice castle up on the hill. We cooled off and set off for the wine cellars. It was a nice row ...
Bulls Blood and Beautiful Women
A short train ride north of Budapest, Hungary is the small town of Eger which we decided to visit because: A) It was recommended by Rick Steves in his travel guide on Budapest;
B) It's a major wine region in Hungary, and;
C) They have thermal baths that sounded really good.
The one thing that Eger didn’t seem to have was any trains that traveled north to Ukraine which was our next stop after Hungary. We had to get a round trip ticket from Budapest to ...
Little town of wonders.
Arriving in Budapest earlier then my expected arrival time for the first time in my life allowed me a few opportunities to do some serious people watching. Little did I know that, I was going to find this place to be so stereotypically eastern European it could be taken from a B-list Hollywood flick.
My buddy, Kevin who has been playing pro water polo overseas for years now swung by the airport to pick me ...
Elusive Eger
... ATM? no. Bank? no.) It was deserted except for one woman asleep on a bar stool, hand gripped around a shot glass half full of plum brandy. The noise of our shoes on the sticky floor woke her briefly, but she managed to sleep through us hammering on the bar to attract the attention of the barmaid.
The train, for once, was actually within an hour on time, and we arrived in Eger about 7:30pm. This is when we discovered ...


