A 3 Star Hotel on a 1 Star Vacation

Somehow, we ended up in a ok room in a quite nice hotel. After our last breakfast in Hungary with J (as Grandma was cooking a big batch of fried chicken), we missed the bus we meant to take to Eger by 1 minute because we walked out the wrong entrance of the metro and could not find the bus station. Luckily, the next bus was only an hour later and we had time for some lunch. We could tell things had changed once we got to the bus stop. The ticket person did not speak any English (and we don't speak Hungarian fluently yet) so there was some written number communication as to bus times and ticket prices and so on. We ordered some food (nectarines, mustard and bread) without talking. We're pretty sure that the mustard (in a tube! well, we think it is mustard and it tastes like mustard) doesn't need refridgeration.

The bus was very fancy, especially compared to the Stalin busses and trains in Budapest. We were sad to leave J and her family, but Eger is quite adorable. We do better in small places because we are able to wonder and explore without ever getting too far from where we mean to be.

Our hotel is quite nice, our first big hotel experience. There are about 300 rooms and it backs up to a big bath complex that is like a water park. We get free admission, and spent a bit of time there this afternoon sampling the pools. It's like an amusement park, with grass to lay on and cotton candy and ice cream everywhere. And gyros. There have been gyros everywhere for the last two days. And gyros mean that there is a big hunk of meat that the cooker slices from when he makes a gyro. Gross.

Despite getting further from the English speaking world, we hear American music everywhere. In the restaurant we had dinner in, at the pub last night, downtown in Eger at the wine tasting festival....and I swear, the only music we heard in Prague was Michael Jackson.

For dinner we had delicious crepes at another restaurant that Rick Steves (the author of our guidebook) reccommended. They were AMAZING.....nexzt to the vegetarian place in Prague and J's grandma, it was the best food we have eaten on our trip. And we have leftovers. Unprecedented for us. In order to store them, we cleaned everything out of our hotel room "minibar". No problem though, that stuff won't go bad, but vegetables and tuna will.