Jen drove us to the Sachsenring via an ATM on Saturday. It’s annoying that all the food and drink stalls are cash only. When you get beer or shandy you pay an extra €2 per plastic glass and get a red token. You then get your €2 back when you return the containers and tokens. […]
Days 30 – 31: Budapest to Chemnitz Germany, Thursday/Friday 9th and 10th July
We had an earlyish start with a 7.30 taxi to the airport. Check in was fine and we were set to arrive in Prague about an hour before Jen, who was coming from Istanbul. All good to Frankfurt but unfortunately (for a bird) the incoming flight hit the bird and then had to be checked […]
Day 29 Budapest: Wednesday 8th July
It was an early start to get packed with our bags outside our cabin in order to be loaded onto the buses. Still time for a final breakfast, though I always have an identical breakfast so it was not particularly special! We all slept for a good deal of the 2.5 hour journey to Budapest. […]
Day 28: Pecs Hungary – Tuesday 7th July
We had 2 optional excursions, both of which involved a bus ride. Pauline and I opted to do the trip to Pecs (pronounced Petch)which has a church, organ recital, world heritage archaeological site and pretty town. Mike opted to chill out on the boat. The boat is very low in the water and we needed […]
Day 27: Ilok and Vukovar Croatia – Monday 6th July
In the morning we had an excursion to Ilok which is a rural village up on a fortress. Following a short stroll around the fortress we went to a local vineyard, Hungary’s 3rd largest, for wine tasting. As they say, it’s always wine o’clock somewhere. The church at Ilok was nice. A Catholic Church this […]
Day 26 Novi Sad, Serbia – Sunday 5 July
Another beautiful sunny day and not too hot. We first had a quick bus tour of Novi Sad, which is Serbia’s second largest city and then a walk through the central town. Novi Sad was rebuilt in the late 1800s after the town was flattened by the Hungarians that were occupying the fortress across the […]