Sailing along the Danube we leave Serbia today and head into Hungary to the small town of Mohacs. The weather has taken a decidedly cold change so we are all rugged up to go for a walk through the town. This town is famous for 2 battles that took place there: Battle of Mohacs, 1526 and the Battle of Mohacs, 1687. These battles represented the beginning and end, respectively, of the Ottoman domination of Hungary.

Mohács is seen by many Hungarians as the decisive downward turning point in the country's history, a national trauma persisting in the folk memory. For moments of bad luck, they have a saying: "more was lost at Mohács" (Több is veszett Mohácsnál). To this day, Hungarians view Mohács as marking the end of an independent and once powerful European nation. While Mohács was a decisive loss, it was its aftermath that truly put an end to independent Hungary. The ensuing two hundred years of near constant warfare between the two empires, Habsburg and Ottoman, would devastate the Hungarian countryside and decimate the population.

A rather quaint little town and even though everything was shut due to a public holiday it was still nice to wander around.