Hotel Korona Eger
Tunderpart 5 Eger, 3300, Hungary
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Eger and the Valley of the Beautiful Women
... leave from platform one....it was on platform two. Another thing that I learned was that you shouldn't get on a train just because you heard your destination said in the middle of an Hungarian announcement....it could very well be the wrong train!! Long story short, we were lucky to have made it back to Budapest that night and I learned that it's always good to find an English speaking Hungarian that is willing to help!
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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
... springs that had different mineral compositions. One of the pools had a strong sulfur smell because of the sulfur content in its source spring but the rest of the pools smelled better. We went on a Saturday and it was a VERY busy day so it was harder to find a spot to sit and relax in any of the pools and unfortunately it was more of a beach atmosphere than the baths in Budapest with people throwing around beach balls and playing on water toys in the baths. We still ...
Little town of wonders.
... again and again. Yet in itself Damian would be considered a pretty low budget place, but the bath culture that feeds it is what I like. The few hours we spent wasting away in its peppery hot waters mixed with a cold brew made for the best jet lag scenario yet to date.
The following week was spent hanging out, organizing the odd trinket and getting ready for India. Kevin would roll to training and like a ...
Camera Obscura
... mural on the library ceiling. It depicted the Trent Synod, because the count was also a bishop and he saw the synod as calling for a renewed commitment to education as a means of renewing the Church. The four corners symbolized themes from the assembly: ordination of priests, censorship of books (ironic?), reverence of the Virgin Mary and Saints, and the Sacrament of the Ill. The ceiling dome appeared to be quite deep, but apparently it was all a trick of ...



