Home to Eger 🏡

Today we travelled to Eger, our home for nearly 2 years. It is just a month short of 3 years ago that we left, however part of our heart never left. As we collected a rental car and drove here it was exciting to see names in the road signs that were so familiar to us. I remember seeing the name Nyíregyháza on a road sign on our first trip to Eger in 2019 and thinking I'll never learn how to say these names!! Of course I did and they no longer seem strange!

As we will have ample time to wander about Eger over the next couple of days we didn't drive directly there. We decided to drive to some nearby villages before settling in to our flat. We did a round trip through Kerecsend, Demjén and Egerszalók. We headed that way to drive through the hills which were our way in and out of Eger for most of our stay here. A new highway opened before we left and takes a different route. Egerszalók we have been to many times. On our way into Eger we stopped on a hill amidst grape vines to overlook Eger and Nagy-Eged Hill. We always knew we were nearly home when that hill came into view.

We then drove to Noszvaj, 15km from Eger in a different direction. It's a lovely village which we always liked.

It is fabulous seeing all these familiar places. The countryside is lovely and green. A huge change from Malta.

When back in Eger we checked in to our accommodation, went for a walk up and down Bródy Sándor Utca, the street where we lived in an apartment above offices and 2 small shops.

Then we had the best evening. Dinner at a restaurant with friends Ottilia and her husband Lajos, followed by visiting one of the many icecream shops for dessert. I've taken a liking to cantaloupe icecream which I'd never had before this trip to Europe. Ottilia and Lajos then came back to our flat to chat for a while. It was so good to see them. Our flat is huge compared to the other apartments we've recently been in. Very nicely restored, modern and right in the old town. There's an area set up by the creek just 40 metres away with a large screen, food and drink stands etc to watch the Euro24 suffer games, but with the very thick walls of this old building and the double glazing we don't hear a thing until we open our door. We remember the same set up when Euro 2020 was on. The crowd swells incredibly when Hungary plays.

We have missed Eger. We're happy back in our home away from home.もっと詳しく