Monday, June 5 – Gyor, Hungary
Today was pretty uneventful. We hit the road at 8 and drove all day past Augsburg, Munich, Salzburg, and Vienna. With stops for rest, food, crossing the Hungarian border, getting vehicle permits for Austria and Hungary, and changing some money into Hungarian Forints, we only reached our hotel at 7:30. After a late, but delicious Hungarian meal, we all headed off to bed in anticipation of a 7:30 a.m. departure tomorrow for a very busy day. This research is hard work!
Here we are at the Hungarian border. From left to right, Baz, Frank, Jim, Nora-Anne, Marge, Daryle, Carol, Trevor, Betty, Mary Ann, Bev, and Sue.
We passed by some major tourists stops today, but our mission now is to get to our ancestral homeland as quickly as possible. We will take in some of those other stops on the way back.
The scenery today was right off of postcards or jigsaw puzzles - gently rolling to somewhat hilly through southern Germany, beautifully green through the foothills of the Alps in Austria, and
onto the flat plains with many bluffs of trees in Hungary. Everywhere we have been has been beautifully green, but I guess that should be expected for spring. They have had a lot of rain here also. The rivers are all filled to overflowing. In Hungary there was standing water in some of the fields and the river through Gyor is over its banks, although contained to a floodplain by dikes and catchments areas.
The weather has also been pretty consistent – cool and mostly cloudy, with showers. So far the showers have been either light enough or timed well enough that they haven’t hampered what we wanted to do.
Our hotel tonight is so quaint that it deserves special mention. It seems to consist of several buildings tied together or several additions added on to one another. There are so many unexpected turns and corners and uncounted short stairways of two to five steps up or down at a time. It is decorated with wood trim in some places and wood trim with cloth in others. It has a couple of cozy little sitting areas and numerous racks of deer antlers hung everywhere.
Here we are at the Hungarian border. From left to right, Baz, Frank, Jim, Nora-Anne, Marge, Daryle, Carol, Trevor, Betty, Mary Ann, Bev, and Sue.We passed by some major tourists stops today, but our mission now is to get to our ancestral homeland as quickly as possible. We will take in some of those other stops on the way back.
The scenery today was right off of postcards or jigsaw puzzles - gently rolling to somewhat hilly through southern Germany, beautifully green through the foothills of the Alps in Austria, and
onto the flat plains with many bluffs of trees in Hungary. Everywhere we have been has been beautifully green, but I guess that should be expected for spring. They have had a lot of rain here also. The rivers are all filled to overflowing. In Hungary there was standing water in some of the fields and the river through Gyor is over its banks, although contained to a floodplain by dikes and catchments areas.
The weather has also been pretty consistent – cool and mostly cloudy, with showers. So far the showers have been either light enough or timed well enough that they haven’t hampered what we wanted to do.
Our hotel tonight is so quaint that it deserves special mention. It seems to consist of several buildings tied together or several additions added on to one another. There are so many unexpected turns and corners and uncounted short stairways of two to five steps up or down at a time. It is decorated with wood trim in some places and wood trim with cloth in others. It has a couple of cozy little sitting areas and numerous racks of deer antlers hung everywhere.
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