Hotel Korona Eger

... shaped rock/hill with wine cellars carved out of them. Each cellar has a little bar area where people can come in and taste the wine. This would be an unbelievable place for a pub crawl for anyone interested. All the cellars are centred around a park the size of half a football field and there must be around 40 different ones there (plus a few restaurants). Everything is sold by the dl (decilitre = 100ml). A 1 dl ...

... een Hongaars wijntje. En 2 nachten op het dakterras geslapen, dankjewel Danny, we zijn erg blij met je timmerkunsten. Het idee ontstond voornamelijk aangezien er binnen in de bus een behoorlijke chaos was ontstaan en deels omdat de sterren mooi stonden te schitteren. Heerlijk geslapen J Op weg naar Budapest hebben we het schattige plaatsje Tihany bezocht en van een sunset diner op het dakterras genoten met uitzicht over het balatonmeer.

Budapest ...

... event in the town centre as they were all packing up their stalls when we got there. The centre is pretty, but very touristy.

We then drove to the "Valley of the beautiful women" where most wine producers have their cellars around in central park. You can walk into any (or all) of them and sample or buy their wines. They are rated on a three star scale, so you get ...

... stopped for an ice cream at a tiny resort village beside a reservoir called Palcmanská Maša. As with all the villages we've seen, the houses are almost universally in a poor state, at least externally.Even small towns have rows of concrete apartment blocks, presumably a reminder of days in the Soviet Bloc.

After a stop for a bite we crossed over into Hungary and soon reached Miskolc, the easternmost point of ...

Early Friday morning we took off to my parent's cabin located in the Northern part of the country, near Miskolc. The house is in a tiny village called Sajogalgoc, my dad grew up here, so the ties are particularly strong to theis area. In fact, their house use to be the local school my dad and his brothers attended while my grandmother use to be the one and only schoolteacher here for several years after WW II.
Most of my relatives were going ...

... are known as the Magyars which 2000 years ago came from Mongolia. Typically Hungarians have more of an Asian look. The language is very different too as it shares no similarities to any of the languages of the surrounding countries. The only language remotely close to it is Finnish. So, the people in Eger have darker features than others. And no this isn't a gypsy settlement!

I checked out this market hall which is a site to see! There is remarkably more poverty here ...

... the Turks returned in 1596 with a much larger army and eventually over-run the small town of Eger. Turkish rule lasted for 91 years with the Turks turning Eger into an Adimistrative area of Turkey. The castle was rebuilt, thermal baths and minarets were put in around the city. All of the churches were converted to Mosques. However, in 1687 ...

Arrived from Budapest at 10.30am after changing trains in Füzesabony. Walked into town which took about 15 minutes and visited the Tourist Information centre for a town map. Started our walking tour of Eger at Eger Cathedral before walking past the Bishop's Palace and then stopping for lunch. After lunch we walked past the Cistercian Church towards the castle. Stopped at The Minaret and the Minorita ...

It was a very long drive to Eger. The motorway wasn't finished so we had to take small roads for a portion of the trip and then we got stuck behind a bad accident (a medivac helicopter had to come). It was getting dark by the time we arrived and we spent a frustrating 30 minutes looking for our hotel. Finally found it, had a quick dinner and went to bed. Our hotel was right off the square and in the shadow of the Eger Castle. So in the morning we exlored the square a little bit ...

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