Bull's Blood

Managed to accidentally create cruise control on the van! More scary antics by the van Napoleon. Imagine you take your foot off the accelerator and the vehicle continues at the same speed unless you brake or lower the gears. Investigations with the help of James discovered a tie clip stuck around the accelerator cable. Whatever way it had been caught it was preventing the cable from relaxing.

Eger, famous for….Bulls Blood, for all you wine lovers. £1 per litre of very fine and immeniently drinkable vino rosso. We are camped about a field away from the wine cellars, so this is altogether very pleasant.
Finally managed to get GAS. After asking lots of people and attempting to buy a new large Hungarian Gas cylinder, was beginning to wonder if a gas bottle was an item to be inherited as opposed to bought. Finally a breakthrough, whoopee. More generosity, when a mechanic drove us to where our camping gaz bottles were refilled at a PrimaGaz depot. A feisty beautiful hotpants clad lady served us with a lot of macho kindness! We were also able to purchase a full large cylinder. Kerching! The mechanic would only take a firm handshake and plenty of verbal thankings. Yet again the warmth and love for humanity is restored.
Besides the wine, this is a lovely old medieval town, also famous for briefly defeating the onslaught by the Ottoman Empire and soldiers, as per usual with only a handful of men, they held an army hostage!!!
There are plenty of old town buildings to keep the eye amused and the people are all fairly friendly. Haven’t managed to sample the nightlife, but the vibe is all quite chilled, unless you are wishing to use the post office. Queues and verbals!

Next stop is Visigrad, slightly north of Budapest, once we manage to drag ourselves away from the vineyard. Good thing we have some empty bottles we can refill with wine to go!