Hello guys, let me bother you after long time again with my another travel blog :-p Today I would like to share with you my travel experiences from Hungary and Austria. Maybe it would be better to call it: "Magyar (Hungarian) - Östereichische (Austrian) Battle". Ehm... I guess many of you think now: "Pfff... Austria is the winner." Well... try to read me little bit and then decide, ok? 

So.. me and my family spent four days abroad, just we can't count the first and the last day as these were mostly traveling days. So what reminds? Yeahhh..you still can count, I knew it.. you are right… two days. One day in Austria, one day in Hungary – fair enough, nah?

Let's start with Austria. As you may know it is economically developed country, where everything is clean, people love to decorate their villages, put flowers in the windows of their houses and if you leave the phone in your unlocked car – believe me it will be still there when you are back. Their mentality is simply awesome, however I would like to add that for us – Czechs it is a bit expensive there.

We firstly visited the largest endorheic lake in the central Europe called Lake Neusiedl. Ehm… endorheic isn't any abrakadabra word it just means that water flows into it but not out of it. This lake is situated in the northern part of Austria and there are many smaller lakes around. We chose one of them and walked around Zicklack See with bird watch points, which might one day disappear as the water is almost gone. Anyway, I talked about Lake Neusiedl, which is mostly lake, where several kinds of the birds live and people visit it to watch them. It isn't lake where people swim as its coast is mostly covered with reed, however in some parts you can find beaches and promenades, where you feel like you are at some coastal destination. Despite this all, no no noooo...nobody would ever force me to swim there with the ducks! :D

Another important thing is that Lake Neusiedl is literally occupied by many cyclists as there are several kilometers of paths for them. What about to visit some ruins of the castles? This area is also called Burgenland – which means Land of the Castles and it is also full of wineyards – the best combination for someone like me! Not just castles but also ruins of them are part of this green flat landscape. We chose two of them – Tabor ruin and Hornstein ruin, which is situated in beautiful countryside, offers magnificant view, just you have to climb the damn steep hill up to find out there is just one wall of the medieval castle! Anyway – it was worth it, believe me!

After this experience I prefered to see a castle, where I imagined myself as princess and this fantasy perfectly matches with Esterhazy Castle in the city Eisenstadt, which was very nice, especially its gardens and surrounding. When we were there – firstly nobody was around but later opera in the castle was about to start and all the noble posh people from Viena (capital Austrian city) were just coming wearing expernsive suits, dresses and giving weird faces… grrr.. nothing for me..

So eventually we decided to run away and see the outstanding sunset over the lake..honestly speaking one of breathtaking experiences of my life even though it was cold weather but to see such beauty is really unforgettable and unique moment...I wish I were there one day again!

Now it is turn to show you and tell you something about Hungary. Let me firstly say that this northern-western part of the country I explored is very flat and it is like a miracle to see there a hill! Me – mountain lover was suffering a lot to travel and see just on the left corn fields and on the right another fields. What might be maybe interesting for you is Hungarian language. It isn't anything related to my native language nor to any Slavic language – it is as if they talked in Chinese because we don't understand them almost anything :D So one has to pray so that Hungarians you meet were able to speak English because many of them prefer German! :) See some pictures I took from the car and try to read the names of the villages – btw don't bite your tongue!

However, lets continue with our third day, which we started in the historical city called Sopron – read (schopron). To be honest I fell in love with this city because the center of it was not that big but beautiful enough offering many things such as Fire Tower, Catherdal, City sightseeing train, old historical houses and squares…

When we were hungry in Hungary ( haha just my stupid playing with the words :D) we decided to take lunch at one of the restaurants in the historical center. I decided to taste something hungarian and my husband too. So apart from local beer called also Sopron, we got chicken with paprica and tirhana (which is special hungarian pasta) and pork with beans and potato crockets. Delicious and even cheaper than in my country. Finally I felt like these rich western tourists! :D hahahaaaaa…

Another place we decided to explore was Esterházy Castle in Fertöd, which is called Hungarian Versailles because it is one of the most beautiful castles in Hungary. Such a magnificent architechture, awesome park to walk and relax in and history everywhere around you was just the best treatement for tired mother like me! :D By the way a part of this castle park was Japanese Pavilon, which used to be or still was (to my surprise) guest house. In the middle of the forest – I wouldn't sleep there even for free :D

So this is in short all about my trip, which was awesome as the weather was perfect and this is the most important to me. In my opinion there is no winner because both countries can offer something else and both have their own beauty… calm Austria against wild Hungary 1:1 to me...

P.S. If you want to see more pictures, I plan to post them here some later :-)

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  • Haven't you been to Budapest Luci? Amazing authentic european architecture this capital city shows off for all travellers. Nice travel blog, keep it up!

  • Haven't you been to Budapest Luci? Amazing authentic european architecture this capital city shows off for all travellers. Nice travel blog, keep it up!

  • Roman.. just doing it :D

  • Musky, yeahhh maybe I am back..lets see baby :D thanx for liking the pics ;-)

  • Lucinka, just do it! I want to become speechless because of watching sunset!:)
  • Aha luci finally back! Pics are beautiful!! Of course we want more!! These pics are like cup cakes and for the BIG one we have to wait.. 

  • Ryszz..mah dear neighnour !!! I am happy to see you here and hahaaa unfortunately there was no Bílá paní who would scare us to death but hahaa I will post one pictures with story abt it :D
  • NyAi.. thanx for stopping by and reading my blog :) I love traveling so if possible m outta my flat and outta the city :)
  • Roman,
    thanx for going through this sll and checking all the details! I am impressed you are such an observer! Well.. you can ofc correct me if you see some bullshits in my blogs :D
    Well... Esterhazy was royal Hungarian family in era of Habsburks and as you know Hungary and Austria used to be one monarchy - that's why Esterhazy castle in both countries ;)
    As for the pictures, I will upload them today and hahaa coo that Sopron is similar to your Lvov city.. i guess it is about architecture of this era; which was in Europe kinda the same...don't you think? As for sunset - yeah this was magical and I have another picture I will post here to make you for a while speechless :D ehmm..is it actually possible?
  • Paula, you are always welcome :) I am glad you liked it!
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