Tips & Tricks: Train Travel in Hungary

So far we haven’t ventured to book train tickets from anywhere than our train agency in the city (CFR Arad). I knew I was paying a small premium (about 1.2 euros per ticket for internal fares) and that connecting international tickets always cost more but we liked the security of booking through an agent (being…

Eger, Hungary: 2 Days Itinerary

Eger is a small town (and yes, I mean small : 57 000 inhabitants in 2011) in Northern Hungary, very well known for two things: it was the last castle to fall to the Turks and home to the northernmost Turkish minaret it is the main wine region in Hungary (the red wine is particularly…

Places we have visited in 2014

Another year over, a new just began… So let’s take a look at where we’ve been in 2014. Ceala Forest, Arad, March 1 Radna, Lipova, Paulis, Arad County, March 15 >>Road trip: Radna – Lipova – Paulis Conop-Nadas, Arad County, May 10 (Arad Rally 2014) >>Arad Rally 2014 Budapest, Hungary & Bratislava (including Devin), Slovakia,…

Review: Animation City Hostel, Budapest, Hungary

Website (not their): http://animationcityhostel.gportal.hu/ Address: 2. Haris koz, Budapest, 1052-HUN Telephone: 00 36 20 329 7007 E-mail: animation.city.hostel@gmail.com How to get to The closest Metro station is Ferenciek Tere on M3 (blue). If you come from the airport, this is where you should get off. Take the Kossuth Lajos u exit and make a right…

Review: Astoria City Hostel, Budapest

Website http://astoriacityhostel.com/ Address 1072 Budapest, Rákóczi út 4 Tel: +36 1 950 64 80 email: staff@astoriacityhostel.com How to get to We arrived in Budapest by train so we took M2 from Keleti pu to Astoria. And now we walked around our tail because we knew to exit on Rakoczi…however, we didn’t exit to the correct…