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From an Ugly Duckling to a Swan
We all arose reasonably late in the morning. It was a very long day yesterday and we were exhausted. We did not have any breakfast supplies on hand as we had not shopped. After we had our showers and got cleaned up it was time to leave the apartment and see what Transylvania had to offer. Isn't it amazing how things look when you are tired, it is wet, raining, and thunder storming? Well that's enough about Cheryl. We went outside and a whole new world. Though the day was still a little cloudy, and dull, the town was very much a story book place. (and not Dracula).
We were in desperate need of something to eat, as we went to bed "Hungary" last night. After studying the maps looking for the town Centre, we decided to turn left again at the end of the block. This road took us to a beautiful tree lined park, which I have loaded onto the photos. The very long path through the park then took us over the rail line to the edge of Lake Baleton. Lake Baleton is one of the largest lakes in Europe, about 80kms long, but on average only about 5 kilometers wide. It is not very deep, mostly about 5 metres. It was formed through subsidence of the land. The areas around the lake can also be of a marshy nature.
The area we had walked to was the main "seaside" entertainment area of Keszthley, full of stalls rides and children's aquatic playgrounds. There were also eating places, but it was too early for them to be open. So, we decided to push onto the Town Centre as we figured there would be lots open there. We followed the map, and walked, and walked, and bloody well walked! Finally, after going down every rabbit burrow, we found the Town Centre.
As expected, there were more eating houses than you could imagine, together with more ice-cream shops than in all of Australia collectively. (obviously the girls thought they were in heaven). By this time, it was about 11.00am. We found a nice place to eat, which was protected from the elements, which was important as it was still intermittently raining. Brian and Dianne had a "breakfast" of ham, cheese etc, whereas Cheryl and I had a beautiful Wiener Schnitzel. Because the weather was a little disappointing, we used the afternoon to go to the tourist bureau to get some ideas of what to do, and also catch up on some shopping for the apartment.
The planning was worth it, as we came away with a long list to choose from. The girls purchased some towels so Dianne could have a shower as she was a bit on the nose. We collected everything and worked out we had to go that way! We walked all of about 100m to our apartment. Yep you guessed it. We turned left and walked about 8kms to the town Centre, and if we had of turned right, we would have walked 100m. Everyone was blaming me for this small faux par, I can't say I was blameless, but the skipper has default setting that turns him left. I distinctly remember this left turn malfunction occurred off the island of Murter. On a positive note we got to see a lot of the town you wouldn't normally to go to.
We got back to the apartment, unloaded our groceries, and decided to have a rest, as we were still quite tired. I sorted my computer as I knew I had work to do very early tomorrow morning. The crew did some planning for the next day. There was not a lot open today, as it was Sunday. We did not arise again until about 8.00 pm. We decided to walk the 100 metres downtown for some for some tea. Dianne & Brian tried the Hungarian Goulash, I had pork medallions, and Cheryl a stuffed paprika's were very nice.
Everything in Hungary is reasonably priced, roughly less than half of what you would pay in Australia. Our fist day in Keszthley was great, and we were looking forward to doing our boat trip and museum trips tomorrow.
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