We have shifted to Lake Balaton which is the largest lake in central Europe. The drive down had us passing thru Budapest. Apparently Budapest does not have a ring road as google had us pass thru the center of the city on pretty major roads, but it was 45 minutes of urban driving that had me on my toes.
We arrived at a very large campsite next to the lake. Lake Balaton has about 120 miles of shoreline. During the communist era when average Hungarians could not travel Lake Balaton was the center of Hungarian tourism. It is still popular, but a lot of the spaces set up to handle the masses of Hungarians in the past are now being converted to luxury resorts, which has not gone down well with the average Hungarian.
We are on the northern side of the lake which is a long time wine region since the Romans arrived. We saw the vineyards coming in, but didn’t stop for wine.
After settling down we decided to head to the small town of Tihany on a promontory above the lake. The center fo the town is the abbey which was founded in 1050.
It is a cute little town that exudes high end tourism. The prices of beer and wine sent me into shock. But the views and the cute stores kept us occupied until we saw some dark skies gathering. We debated having a drink, but the prices were too much for me, and the skies were threatening so we headed back to François and opened our best bottle of wine from Slovakia.
Our campground is the home to a very large population of crows. The tree above the campsite we are in is home to 10 or 15 crows which has Ton a little concerned. She asked me why so many crows were living in our tree, I told her that the crows were here first and we are in their space. She then said-well I hope they don’t poop all over François, which is a sentiment I can only agree with.
