A Vacation From Our Vacation...

Tihany, Hungary

September 19, 2007
N46°54.450
E017°53.237

The alarm went off at 6:30 AM and we officially started another “travel day”… we jumped a trolley to the Metro, took the Metro to the train station, and rode the rails southwest for 126KM to the town of Siofok, boarded a ferry and eventually arrived on the Tihany pier at 12:30PM.

When we arrived on the Tihany Penninsula, we walked about 2 KM, mostly uphill, to our accommodation for the next three nights only to be told they didn’t have our reservation. After several minutes of back-and-forth in broken English and Hungarian we found out that they had an available room. Thank goodness, since lodging in the village of 1500 residents is limited to say the least.

The quaint town of Tihany is set up on a hill that overlooks Lake Balaton; the land locked country of Hungary’s excuse for a coastline. It’s actually the largest lake in Central Europe and the area northwest of the lake is the famous wine region of Badacsony.

We look forward to relaxing in the countryside, enjoying the views of the lake and not fighting our way through a big city for a few days. Not that we expect any sympathy, but navigating our way through a large and unfamiliar city day after day gets very tiring. We’re kind of taking a vacation from our vacation for a few days.

Of course, we already have our food and wine mapped out for our time in Tihany, a mini-Napa—well, we’ll be the judge of that!

Stay tuned… tomorrow is the Big Birthday Post for you know who!