Hotel Romantik Eger
Csiky Sandor 26 Eger, H - 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
... cellars where you can taste wine and then buy it for super cheap! We can't say we loved hungarian wine but we found one semisweet red wine and it came in a 2 L plastic pop bottle! We saw lots of people drive up with plastic bottles and get them filled. It was awesome. With wine in hand we trekked back to our hotel and had an amazing dinner. We loved how cheap Hungary was but ...
Bulls Blood and Beautiful Women
... Bloc and wine yields per hectare of grapes were pushed higher and higher with little regard for the quality of the wine. This has luckily changed in the 20+ years since the fall of Communism and the wine quality is very good based on what we tried. We spent an afternoon wandering through the wine caves of Sirens Valley, tasting many of the local grape varieties as well as a blend that Eger is famous for called “Bulls Blood.” After all of the trouble we had ...
Little town of wonders.
... the opportunity to watch some pro water polo as the number 2 seated team was looking for some room to climb against Kev’s team. The game was good, I won my bets and the home team went away smiling.
As the day’s wore on it was time to make a break for Budapest and explore what the famous capital city had to offer. Thankfully I was pleasantly surprised that everything it would bring to the ...
Camera Obscura
... There was also a room with a bunch of "science magic" demonstrations for kids, but the best demo was the camera obscura. The camera obscura was similar to a periscope, with mirrors and lenses redirecting a view from above, but instead of looking at the light directly, it was focused onto a white table, like projecting a movie onto a screen. It wasn't a camera in the sense of recording images and transmitting them, it was a simple, optical device with no chemicals ...



