Bucket List 196: Hungary!

The Road Travelled · Tales From Hungary · Photos

Country 75/196: Hungary. The great nation of the Magyars, Hungary is a bit of an oddity in the heart of Central Europe. With an extremely complex and unique language as well as a hard-line leader, the nation is quite unlike any of her neighbours and this they are proud of. Despite being landlocked, Hungarians have easy access to freshwater via the region’s largest lake, Balaton, as well as an incalculable number of thermal baths. A visit to Széchenyi in Budapest is a must, a place where you can also take a warm bath in the world’s most consumed alcoholic beverage, just be sure to bring a clothes peg for your nose.

The Road Travelled

Tales From Hungary

I Like Big Tubs and I Cannot Lie

March 9th, 2024 Jack Noah Rees

I Need Stories

With Vishnu temporarily repaired and teaching done for the weekend, we could loosen up, relax, and start to find out what it means to be Hungarian and what better way to do that than by taking a nice warm beer bath. Not a regular bath with mugs of beer on the side, as Lowri naively…

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Start Spreading Danube

March 6th, 2024 Jack Noah Rees

I Need Stories

Following a festive weekend in Vienna we embarked on the short seventy-kilometre hop directly south into the great nation of the Magyars, otherwise known as Hungary. A slight oddity in the heart of Central Europe, the country is quite unlike any of its neighbours, especially in terms of language. With forty-four letters and eighteen case…

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