Today was going to be a long trip, so we needed to be well organised. Last night we had a pretty reasonable thunderstorm, so the boat was rocking and rolling quite a bit. When I got up in the morning to go to the loo, there was no plank! I was busting, but the guy on the boat next door let me walk across his boat and use his plank. On the way back, I saw another plank lying on the pathway with no boat attached to it, so I figured it needed a home. Cheryl said l...

Lake Balaton is a freshwater lake in western Hungary. It's a major holiday destination with beaches, volcanic hills, resort towns and high-rise hotels along its 197km shoreline. The hilly north shore is a wine-growing region, with protected wetlands and hiking trails at Balaton Uplands National Park. The town of Veszprém has a walled Castle district, and 13th-century frescoes at the Gizella Chapel. We decided to take a boat ride on the lake today. It was only...

From an Ugly Duckling to a Swan We all arose reasonably late in the morning. It was a very long day yesterday and we were exhausted. We did not have any breakfast supplies on hand as we had not shopped. After we had our showers and got cleaned up it was time to leave the apartment and see what Transylvania had to offer. Isn't it amazing how things look when you are tired, it is wet, raining, and thunder storming? Well that's enough about Cheryl. We went outsi...