And so the journey begins....

The train to Eger was delayed, as an incoming train was running late. A guy that we had met yesterday on the way to the castle was possibly going to be coming to Eger the same time as us. And as the late train pulled in, he jumped off and onto our train. Eger was amazing. It has a lovely city and the best of all it has plenty of red wine and the local speciality is Bull's Blood. It was very tasty. They have all these cellars one after the other all along the a street just north of the city, easy walking distance. This place you could just stay in for a week or more, it is so relaxing. Oh yeah, my luck with the weather has improved, it improved while I was in Denmark and since then I have had nothing but blue skies! touch wood of course...
After spending a few hours there and many glasses of wine later, we headed back to where we were staying and continued to drink. The best bit about these cellars, is that if you take an empty bottle, want ever size, they will fill it with the local drop for just about nothing. And it is well worth taking a couple of litres away with you. The next morning the boys and I headed to Budapest, the other guy was going to spend another night in Eger, he hadn't had enough wine yet. We will probably see him in Budapest. We arrived in Budapest and an elderly man helped us find the metro and where we were on the map, and he gave me a book of metro tickets for nothing, it had 8 tickets in it. So we got to ride for free...beauty! That afternoon we headed out to have a bit of a look around. We came acrosee the protestors, they were camped outside the parliament building, there were speakers and music, and kids running around playing, it was completely peaceful. A few streets away the police had a few streets blocked off. There was an old Soviet Monument still there and the people of Hungary want it gone, so they were there to protect it from damage. Budapest is a great city, there are cool bars. One we went to was in a sort of old factory. It was wicked. There are beautiful parks and heaps to see. Budapest really surprised me, it didn't know what to expect, but it is well worth going to. From Budapest I headed to a little place on Lake Balaton called Keszthely. Now this place is beautiful, I went down to the lake early in the morning, it was just glorious. I will come back here for sure. The lake is about 100 kms long. It is a really pretty area. I wish I had more time up my sleave, I would have liked to seen more of this area. Next time. Now I am on to Slovenia.