Budapest is one of the few cities that I know I could quite happily live in. It is beautiful and lively with a stunning architecture and a dark history. After the problems with the van we decided to have a treat and bought a 'hop on, hop off' sightseeing bus ticket. Budapest is quite spread out so this ended up being a great way of seeing everything and deciding which things to see in more detail. We ended up seeing some fantastic sites, but one of the things t...

Spent a couple of days in Szeged enjoying the cafe's and museums. Generally just pleased to be out of Romania. One of the larger museums had an exhibition on Tibetan culture which was very interesting, it also had a lovely collection of art from Hungarian artists. The collection's central piece is based on the flood which wiped out Szeged in the 19th century. Each of the collections has a detailed analogy of how the piece came about and what made it special; a n...

A very quick visit to Hungary on our way into Romania. We will hopefully be back to see more in a couple of weeks. Egar is famous for wine nick named 'Bulls Blood'. As we had just been to the cash machine and discovered that Dai was in fact a Hungarian millionaire we decided to have a glass of Hungarian wine to celebrate; I can confirm that it is delicious. We both really liked Egar, probably partly to do with the fact it was amazingly warm and sunny and peopl...