Today was a laid back day in the Tokaj Wine region in Slovakia. The Tokaj Wine Region is actually a famous Hungarian wine region, but a small part of it spills into Slovakia. We were not quite ready to leave Slovakia so we decided to head here today.
We found a very well reviewed campground in the wine region and headed out in the morning for Mali Bara. We needed fuel and as we were driving out of Kosice I told Ton we were going to stop at the next gas station. We passed one near the campground in Kosice but thought we could do better on the price. Before we knew it we were into a beautiful countryside and ended up driving the hour to our campground in Mali Bara without seeing another gas station. When we arrived at the campground I told the person at reception we needed diesel and he told us there was a station nearby.
We decided to head over to the station before setting up. After about 15 minutes we pulled into the station but before we could get to a pump the attendant said that they do not sell fuel to vehicles with foreign license plates only Slovak plates. He was apologetic about it, but unbending. I asked him where I could get fuel and his first answer was Hungary. I told him I wanted fuel in Slovakia and he said there was a Shell station about 25 minutes away, and showed me on google maps which one it was. Apparently some companies are restricting purchases for foreign vehicles because there was a run on Slovak gas stations near the Polish border, we are far from the Polish border, and google says fuel is cheaper in Hungary than Slovakia so they aren’t crossing to buy fuel here. Fortunately the drive was on a good road with pretty countryside so we enjoyed ourselves.
We returned and settled into our campground for the day. We asked about wine tasting and were told there was a place walking distance. We headed up there and found a very nice restaurant full of young people on bicycles. We enjoyed a nice meal purchased a bottle of wine and headed back to François for a relaxing afternoon.
