Budapest Spring Music Festival March 2011 - Day Five

The big coach trip day & having to get up at 0650 (party right). The coach went straight by motorway, to Szekesfehervar, the ancient capital of Hungary. This had pretty un-pretty outer parts but a medieval centre, which was very attractive. Artur took us round & then, we had a wander ourselves cumulating in a coffee. Quite a bit of baroque stuff.

Scenes around Szekesfehervar

Then, we went into the countryside, through dull farming villages, where they have discovered the hard way that capitalism kills off small farmers. Many low, long houses which look inefficient to heat. We stopped at a village called Eytek, where we descended into a cellar, were presented with bread, cheese & four wines to taste, rather generous portions for a 'tasting' & ending with a dessert wine that resembled alcoholic golden syrup.

Eytek

U3A Students

The Wine tasting cellar & Avis

We then went to a very nice restaurant in the same village for dinner-at-lunchtime, only it was now about 1430. We had ghoulish soup, beef (!) with red cabbage & mousse on something unrecognisable, all very ethnic. We drove on to a derelict 12thC church with a view & then, back to the hotel by 1808 through the diabolical evening Budapest traffic.