Hunguest Hotel Flora Eger

... day. Rather than taking the train direct to Eger, I decided to take the train 2/3 of the way to Gyongos and then the bus onwards after reading about how wonderful the scenery is between the two towns. One thing I didn't count on was the fact that the bus takes the more direct route on the main road rather than the scenic route! Duh! On the trip I also discovered that Monday is the day in Hungary where most touristy ...

... here we are! De vreugde van gepakt en bezakt en compleet op pad zijn duurde zo’n kilometertje of 50? Op dat moment werd Belgie verrijkt met een stukje bus in de vorm van een lager bleek later. Hmm, een soepele start lijkt dit niet te zijn. Na onze eerste overnachtingsplek bij Krista thuis in een echt bed, in een echt huis met een echte douche in Mechelen, besluiten we in Brussel na het ophalen van het Oezbekistan visum naar de garage te gaan ...

... 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 ...

... Tatras as we headed south, first passing the mountain resort of Stary Smolovec and Tantranska Lomnica with its cable car heading up into the clouds (maybe next time). Then through the town of Poprad with row after row of concrete apartment blocks... and huge new Tesco Hypermarket.

We continued south through the lovely Slovakian countryside and forest, with some excellent twisty roads up and over several ranges ...

... the show. I was slightly dissappointed to find out that it is a recording of a different show. Let's just say the opening piece is basically dancers dressed up as little ducklings marching around.

I spent the rest of the weekend with my aunts, uncles and cousins. Some I haven't seen in a decade. We were lucky enough to have three generations of Szelekovszkys together, not something we ever experienced before. Rayden played soccer with ...

... to pronounce something, they still don't understand. Then they will talk to you louder and more excitedly in this language that you don't understand. That is when I break out the universal language of interpretive dance. Haha. If you want something you act things out or point at pictures. When I booked my sleeper I ended up having to fake a yawn and pretend to lay my head down. I got what I wanted! I am hoping that Romania will be a little easier as a lot of German is spoken ...

Here we are, still alive I'm sure you're all greatly relieved to hear. ;) What have we been up to keeping us too busy to write the travel pod? Well, where shall I start.... Austria's as good a place as any...wow, that seems like so long ago now back in the deep dark mists of the past. We were in the dramatic Austrian Alps after having just come through the mountains from Slovenia, when our brakes failed...fortunately we were actually in a valley right by a fiat garage! Fate was ...

... where the bishop used to keep his wine collection. The tour was in Hungarian & English but the Hungarian piece was MUCH longer than our part...but we still made it to the wine tastings. The walk to the cellers is down a hill which sets the mood for the Valley of the Beautiful Woman. We went into two different cellers, 2 & 6 (there are loads lined up next to each other). Both had their own wine and ...

... that had an English guide leading the tour so we followed them around for the rest of the tour, including a visit to the castle casemates. After the tour ended we took in the views from the castle before beginning the walk back to the train station. Walked back through Dobo Square to the Train station and caught a regional train to Füzesabony before catching an InterCity train back to Budapest Keleti.

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