Guidebook says go to Eger to drink free wine in the Valley of Beautiful Women so I don't really think I need to explain why I came to Eger. This was basically as far north as the Turks got. Pretty small but very nice town. Good to get away from the big cities for a couple days and actually found a "real" gym for the first time and it was free si...

I am in Eger right now. There is a wine festival going on actually so it was the perfect time to go. Eger is known for its wines, in fact, theres a cliff where there are wine tasting places built into the cliffside about twenty minutes from the city. The wine that is very famous here is called Bulls Blood because back when they were defending th...

Hungary? No thanks, I´m fine as I`ve just had a langos, a deep-fried dough pancake covered in garlic, cheese and sour cream. Sickly, but nice. Eger was both a wonderful place to wander around and disappointing. A centre of Hungarian wine growing, we managed to taste some of the worst wines we have ever drunk, and then gave up. This was a shame, ...

So after tearing ourselves away from Budapest- we would have stayed at least 3 more days if we could spare the time, we left for the small town of Eger, a couple of hours away by bus. Eger is famous for wine, theres not much else to do there and it was raining the whole time, so we were forced to spend most of our time there working our way thro...