Day 6
Ljubljiana, Slovenia to Budapest, Hungary -- 460km
So in the morning was the usual - breakfast then pack then leave the hotel. Define my daughter’s address in Budapest as new place to go in the GPS and drive.
No big problem but I couldn’t understand how the Slovenian highway toll system worked, it is different from the other countries I drove in.
Anyway the drive was calm, Slovenia and Hungary have cities then countryside so from the highway it was just countryside. We stopped by a road service area in Slovenia to have a coffee and we were surprised with the quality of that area, new, complete we everything - it even had a woman dressed in folk clothes cooking bread and cookies. Lots of regional stuff. Really good.
Then Hungary, more countryside, rain again, and following the GPS we arrived... at nowhere! After phoning my daughter we figured out the problem - in Budapest they have what might be called as districts and they may have the same street name in each district. So I defined the street in the GPS as the first choice and it was the wrong district. Time to change that, and this time all went well.
After arriving at my daughter's we verified the sooo many suitcases and odd things to carry to the car the next day (one year studying art and design and animation) and went check in at the hotel. There I could park the CR-V in a side street and I could see it from my bedroom window. Good. There was a white line defining the parking space on the sidewalk, not on the street. Odd.
One more hotel and once more a bit different, this one was old style Cotton Club.
The room also had an old style decor.
It was raining a lot. Off we went to a local tour and have tea in a just marvelous tea house, grand, large, high, old times look, just beautiful.
Then a nice dinner in a boat in the river Danube. A pity it rained so heavily. No photos!
Back to the hotel for a good night sleep and next morning when we went have breakfast we were surprised because it was served in the Club area in the basement after a large stair covered in velvet, with music instruments area, bar area, and so on. Amazing.
The only photos were taken by my wife with a cell phone; it was a bit dark.
Ljubljiana, Slovenia to Budapest, Hungary -- 460km
So in the morning was the usual - breakfast then pack then leave the hotel. Define my daughter’s address in Budapest as new place to go in the GPS and drive.
No big problem but I couldn’t understand how the Slovenian highway toll system worked, it is different from the other countries I drove in.
Anyway the drive was calm, Slovenia and Hungary have cities then countryside so from the highway it was just countryside. We stopped by a road service area in Slovenia to have a coffee and we were surprised with the quality of that area, new, complete we everything - it even had a woman dressed in folk clothes cooking bread and cookies. Lots of regional stuff. Really good.
Then Hungary, more countryside, rain again, and following the GPS we arrived... at nowhere! After phoning my daughter we figured out the problem - in Budapest they have what might be called as districts and they may have the same street name in each district. So I defined the street in the GPS as the first choice and it was the wrong district. Time to change that, and this time all went well.
After arriving at my daughter's we verified the sooo many suitcases and odd things to carry to the car the next day (one year studying art and design and animation) and went check in at the hotel. There I could park the CR-V in a side street and I could see it from my bedroom window. Good. There was a white line defining the parking space on the sidewalk, not on the street. Odd.
The room also had an old style decor.
It was raining a lot. Off we went to a local tour and have tea in a just marvelous tea house, grand, large, high, old times look, just beautiful.
Then a nice dinner in a boat in the river Danube. A pity it rained so heavily. No photos!
Back to the hotel for a good night sleep and next morning when we went have breakfast we were surprised because it was served in the Club area in the basement after a large stair covered in velvet, with music instruments area, bar area, and so on. Amazing.
The only photos were taken by my wife with a cell phone; it was a bit dark.
I remember the rain... pouring really really hard, and I remember you arriving at my front door soaking wet! I'm glad you had already been in Budapest, in August when we all went there by plane to "leave me" there...
ReplyDeleteor else, you might have had a bad idea of the city :P