Upon leaving the capital, we went to the nearby town of Szentendre. The picturesque town is situated on the Danube and is famous for its artists and craftsmen.
We visited the town's open air museum to see rural life in Hungary over the past few hundred years.
While at one of the museum's farms we ran into a hideous alien from the planet Meleagris. He was friendly enough but got boring when he lectured us on the merits of wearing a cummerbund.
We also spent a day in the town of Eger. Yes, that's right, from the world famous Siege of Eger in 1552. István Dobó's forces were victorious against the magnificent Suleiman the Magnificent, as seen in statue form below.
However, the Turks returned in 1596 and sought their revenge. Today, Eger is the site of the Northern-most Turkish minaret.
Across the road from the minaret is the marzipan museum which has loads of things made from marzipan. It is famously home to the Northern-most Marzipan minaret.
This baroque interior is made entirely from marzipan in a scale of 1:1.
Eger is also famous for its architecture which is rather pretty.
The Egri Basilica, modeled on the pantheon.
We'll be back in Hungary one day, but in the meantime, have a merry week and we hope all your dreams come true, every one.
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