Into the Bükk Mountains again.

My day started with a trip to the market, then after breakfast we headed out for the day. We revisited the other favourite of our 2 favourite nearby places. Szilvásvárad. It's a small town in the Bükk mountains but brings in lots of Hungarian tourists. Not a huge number of English speaking tourists in this out of the way place. It has many Equestrian events, is a centre for many outdoor activities like hiking, mountain bike riding etc. We like it because it has a fabulous forest walk along the Szalajka Valley. It's very well set up for tourists, it's not like the goat tracks we sometimes found ourselves walking on during our stay in Hungary!

We caught the forest train up to the picnic area and walked back. The approximately 4km walk is more downhill on the way back! It's just a beautiful spot. The stream runs along side the path. You hear that running and birds chirping. It's a relaxing place.

The area is renowned for trout so that's what I had for lunch. Delicious 😋.

Before leaving the area we drove higher into the mountain to a lookout. One of Hungary's many Millennial Lookouts built to celebrate the new millennium in 2000. The steep walk to the lookout from the carpark is actually worse than climbing up the tower.

As we drove home we remembered a very old church at Bélapátfalva. The Cistercian abbey was founded by a bishop of Eger way back in 1234. We have visited a couple of times in the past, saw some ruins and inside the church. It was all fenced off this time and is currently being renovated. A new building has been built as well and is almost finished.

It was another lovely day of seeing places that we love and having many memories return. (Like Russell falling flat when slipping on ice on one of our walks in winter. We both bought new boots with lots of tread after that! He wasn't hurt fortunately.)Leggi altro