Adventure 18: Eger

I had quite high expectations of Eger, a pretty town, lots of wine and our own apartment with no other stinky backpackers and it managed to live up to them.

It was great enough that we managed to give ourselves a proper scrub down after 6 weeks of travel let alone being able to sit in the bath tub with a book and a glass of local wine.

The town centre of Eger was stunning, little bridges, narrow cobbled streets and a town square with many cafes. It also has an minaret which you are able to climb and then view the whole town from a very narrow platform. I am usually pretty good with heights but the tiny platform freaked us both out and we were quite happy when we were safely back on the ground.

On our second day in the town we walked out to the wine region. It was very different from Australian wineries, as basically it was just a loop of cellar doors and you bought a large glass of wine to try rather than sampling a number of varieties. We managed to stumble upon this crazy old hungarian guy that was shouting at us as we walked past his cellar. He spoke no English, but we managed to order in German and then he had us try a ten year old rielsing and it was pretty tasty. So tasty in fact, that we got him to fill up a 2 litre coke bottle so we could drink it later. We tried to ignore the fact that he was sucking on the tube to siphon it into the bottle and happily made our way home with our booty.

We actually think he might have done the old switcheroo on the wine though when we drank it later but it was still tasty so all good in the end.