Hunguest Pelion Tapolca

2 words - central heating. The way they heat some places here is just
ridiculous. Sure it may be close to 0'C outside, but heating all these
communist era buildings with little or no insulation to around 30'C
(ok, maybe not 30, but definitely the mid to high 20 ...

... seems to do the trick.

Short of anything more going wrong with my trip back to Budapest -
after a short train ride from Keszthely, I discovered the connecting
train to Budapest is either running really late, not running
altogether, or has crashed somewhere, and so I am therefore forced to
wait in this 1-horsse town with no horse an extra hour for the next
train - I'll be in Budapest tonight and Ben Gurion Airport by lunch
time tomorrow.

Being one of the few tourists (and possibly the only English speaking
one) in Heviz, I felt a little bit lost heading to the 4.4 hectare
thermal lake. The town is described in Lonely Planet as being a very
'slow' town due to the number of elderly people there - they sure
weren't wrong! It wouldn't be much of a lie to say I was half as young
as the second youngest person in the town that day!!!



Anyway, apart from cafes and heaps of tourist ...

... I coz jeszcze dodac? Zadowoleni z wyjazdu, towarzystwa - tak wlasnie mialy wygladac nasze planowane-nieplanowane wakacje!

Dziekujemy tym, ktorzy sledzili nasza trase.
Dziekujemy wytrwalemu kierowcy - Piotrusiowi, ktory do konca nie wypuscil kierownicy z rak.

CZESC, DO NASTEPNEGO GAZU !!!



Oj...co tam wyszlo?.... RAZU ! ;)

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Niewazne, kto wymyslil! Wazne, ze szczesliwie jestesmy na miejscu.
Kierujemy sie do Tihany, ktore znajduje sie na malym polwyspie na Balatonem.
Kazdy z nas ma jakies wspomnienia z tych miejsc: z blizszego lub dalszego dziecinstwa.
Pilotuje Marcin, dzieki ktoremu bezblednie trafiamy do celu.
Fajne lokum w wymarlym miasteczku znajdujemy bez trudu... jestesmy jedynymi ...

... for a student town there was absolutely nothing happening... We struggled to find a place to eat, with only about 4 options on offer - the first we visited - the waiter was extremely rude, so we walked out... Our other choices were Mexican or Italian...

During our meal, the heavens opened and it belted it down with rain, again ...

Tihany is a small peninsula on the northern side of Lake Balaton, it was a 45min bus ride from Balatonfured... The town centre was extremely provincial, with the exception of some very touristy/souvenir shops there was very little else there...

We ...

Summary:

After spending some days with my soulmate Roman and his girlfriend Martina, it is time to move on. Thanks for the drum session, your house being mine and your support with and without words. We will see us in India!? The van is repaired again, time to continue our journey. Crossing the border into Slovakia, sightseeing their capital Bratislava, then crossing into Hungaria, discussing a no-head lights fine with the police. In Hungaria ...

... we go for a swim in the lake. The atmosphere is very relaxing and the water is amazingly warm. We spend the whole morning sunbathing and swimming on the clear waters of the lake and at 4.30 p.m we go for a walk through the esplanade. The town is lovely and impeccable, full of tourists (the great majority of them in their 60's) but it doesn't matter.
Later we buy a delicious chocolate pastry in the ...

Today was the day we left Austria and entered Hungary. A friend of mine from GSK, Adam Zsinko (a true legend, as you will find out as you read on), lives in Budapest and kindly gave us a locals suggestion of a route down to Budapest, and a list of things to do and see whilst in the capital.

The first two days consisted of a trip down to the Lake Balaton district in Hungary's southwest. We started out from Vienna, and ...