Eger Mountain Road Trip!!

Wow, things have been crazy.  I'm trying to fall into my schedule here, but I have so many lessons that I get confused easily, no matter how many notes I write to myself.  School aside, I did have a great day today!  A colleague took me to a mountain outside of Eger, the wine "capital" of Hungary. 

Eger is the red dot, lol......

We drove about 30 minutes past Eger to the mountains.

Eger street.

Going down the street into the main "area" of Eger.

Past Eger now, heading to the mountains!

Beautiful fall scenery!

We were walking around some of the highest mountains in Hungary.  I believe they were called the Bükk Mountains.  We didn't do much except for walk down a nice paved path, sloping gradually uphill.  The trees were absolutely beautiful because they are just starting to turn their fall colors but haven't lost a lot of their leaves yet, and with the crisp air blowing through them, it couldn't have been a better day.  On the way up the path, they had some cute little deer that the kids were feeding.  They were pretty tame.

We walked up the path for a while until it turned into a dirt path up a steep hill.  We climbed all the way to the top and, lo and behold, there was an awesome cave!  It was the first cave I've ever been in.  I took a rock from it to commemorate this monumental occasion. 

On the way back to the car, we witnessed what appeared to be trucks carrying drunken polka dancing, beer-drinking patrons who were loudly singing along with the music.  There were actual LIVE polka musicians playing in the backs of these semis while the trucks drove down the street.  It was the strangest yet most hilarious thing I've ever seen.

Drunken polka dancing, beer drinkers on a truck.

Not so drunk but listening to polka and waving at everyone as they drove past.  No idea...

 And then we walked back to the car, chuckling.  Here are some photos of the beautiful scenery on the way back!

Cute Hungarian houses on the outskirts of Eger.