Hotel Park Eger
Szalloda U. 1-3 Eger, 3300, Hungary
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Eger and the Valley of the Beautiful Women
... really good and some was not. A lot of the Hungarian wines tend to be very sweet. So even a wine that claims to be dry could very well end up being sweet. I tasted some really good whites, a delicious dry rose, and the bulls blood was one of my favorites.
Overall it was a great trip! On our way home though we found out that the Hungarian train system is not very organized. The timetable said that our train back from ...
Wine in a coke bottle
... quality. We ordered the house wine with our dinner but funnily on it's own it was terrible, but with the food it was great. What a pairing! We ended the evening with our red wine and the us open mens finals. We took the train back to Budapest the following day and took it easy. We had to prepare ourselves for our long journey to Croatia which turned out to be quite the ...
Bulls Blood and Beautiful Women
... left behind after the few hundred years of Turkish rule, although the Mosque is under new management and sports a large Christian cross on the top of it now. There are a couple of different thermal baths in the city and after going to the ones in Budapest and seeing how great they were, we were excited to go to more. The baths in Eger were quite a bit different than Budapest. In Eger there was a larger variety of baths with different temperatures of water and coming ...
Little town of wonders.
... and the occasional white knuckles on the holy **** handles. However, as expected, we arrived safely no worse for wear, after a bite to eat,, we headed off to Damian for what would become my favourite experience of all of Hungary.
Damian is a small outdoor thermal poor, constructed articifially yet fed year round by fully natural geothermal spa water, making this little deucy something to come ...
Camera Obscura
... with the Hapsburg powers-that-be prevented him from establishing a full university. He called it a "Lyceum" instead and eventually politics changed and it was able to become an official college. There was still an active college in the building today.
The original library was there too, and it was open for tourists. The shelves were just as tall, but the books were not as colorful, as at either the Pannonhalma Abbey or Festetics Palace libraries. There was ...


