Vacation Day 2
The Angels decided he wanted to be a tourist for today, so we decided to hop a semi accessible train. As we were waiting the Nostalgia train pulled up. As it was heading to our destination, Tapolca, I thought it would be great fun to take it. My biggest concern was the accessibility issue, which was solved by a makeshift ramp and some strong guys who helped lifting Derek onto the train.
The train is probably Hungary's oldest still functioning train from around 1900, complete with first, second and third class carriages. The train runs along the North Shore of the Balaton and stops at most every village. It is a scenic route and riders get a chance to drive the steam engine for a little fee for a few hundred feet. I had the opportunity to do just that and I had a blast!
Arriving in Tapolca we got to ride a carriage to a horse show were skilled horsemen proved that a horse in harmony with its rider can do pretty much anything. It was awesome. Derek got to pet the horses, which was a totally awesome thing. He is totally terrified by horses. So to make up for the horses I took him to the cave lake for a short row boat ride, which we both enjoyed immensely. Peeking in to the school museum we headed back to the train and went to the picturesque town of Badacsony--the historic wine region where we discovered that entrance fees to the lido were but a fraction of what we'd pay in Vonyarcvashegy, so we decided to come back some other time, but now, enjoying the fact that I wasn't driving we hopped one of the local taxis going to the wine cellars. Now these taxis are really jeeps. It was a very adventorous experience, and it could only be beaten by the excellent wine we got to sample at one of the many cellars.
Getting back down to the tourist part of the village we stopped by a nice cozy restaurant and had an excellent fish dinner. having had enough of riding the train we decided to take the boat to Keszthely and then figure out how to get home from there. We got lucky--we met an Irish couple, Sean and Sarah, who were renting a house just a few blocks away from us in Vonyarcvashegy... They offered us a ride.
Let me quote Derek... "And then we had some wine and cold cuts and pastry and then made love to burn some calories."
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