Eger – Sept 14

Up and off to Church. Afterwards, we all meet at the hotel and we were off again to see the castle. WOW 11 and 12 century. Outside walls are about 4 feet thick. We went on the tour through the cathedral, and the dungeons – the tour guide just spoke Hungarian, so I didn’t understand a word. The dungeons were 30 meters underground, dark, and cold and very close. There were little tourist shops, so of course the power shoppers had to circle the people and buy. We walked down to the square, saw a women making poppy seed pastry. We all piled into taxis and went back to the valley with the wine cellars. We had lunch in the resturant next to the one we waited for the taxi last night. The food was excellant. Keith and I had to wait for at least a half and hour for ours, but the chicken and chips was fantastic. The off to taste wine. We went to 3 cellars. In the first one were 2 young guys that we embarrased a bit, but the one must have liked us, because he lead us into the back to see where they make the wine. 90,000 bottles of wine, hundreds of old barrels and about 5 huge new plastic barrels, all full of wine. The second cellar was ok, but the girl in there was grumpy. so we left after a short time. The third cellar was more friendly so we were there for a while. Along the way we met some one from Hope, and sang very loudly. We had people looking at us and taking photos. They aren’t really loud or sing alot here. We piled into 2 taxis and made our way back to the hotel in time to have supper just before it closed. Again, the people didn’t look happy to see a bunch of loud semi drunk people invade the dinning room – o well. Back to the room to party some more and went to bed.