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Wine tasting, Hungarian style
She says: After a crazy night train experience (the night trains in Spain must have spoiled me), Mom and I arrived in Eger. We planned to spend an afternoon and enjoy what the town is best known for - the quaint wine caves, in which you can taste (and buy) inexpensive local wine. After finally finding a place to store our bags, and freshening up a …
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Eger and the Valley of the Beautiful Women
... happy about this project...it doesn't get much better than wine tasting in the valley of beautiful women for a school project.
A little about Eger...
Eger is a two and a half hour train ride north east of Budapest. It's a beautiful little city that gives off a very relaxed atmosphere. Eger is most well known for the Egri Bikaver, or Bulls Blood wine. The Bull's Blood wine played a significant role in a fight against ...
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
... spending over three hours at the baths but having to negotiate the crowds the whole time left us feeling less relaxed than we had hoped.
Much of the land outside Eger is used for growing grapes and the "Sirens Valley," also known as “Valley of Beautiful Women,” is only a 25 minute walk or 10 minute ride on the tourist train from downtown Eger. During the time of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe, Hungary was the primary wine producer for ...
Camera Obscura
... guard at Eger Castle was because it was the scene of a legendary Hungarian battle against the encroaching Ottoman forces. From reading the museum descriptions, it was something of their Alamo, except the Hungarians won. István Dobó and his small band of defenders held out for over a month against an army of tens of thousands of Ottoman soldiers until winter came (really early fall, but it must have seemed cold to the southern invaders) and the Turks retreated to their ...


