A beautifully morning and breakfast was taken outside in the sun with T-shirts being the order of the day – a real bonus for early October.
Balaton in the largest resort for Hungarians and in the Summer it is absolutely heaving with tourists. Fortunately, at this time of the year it is very quiet and all of the resorts except Keszthely have effectively closed by the end of September, certainly in terms of the campsites. We decided to perform the standard tourist ritual of wandering around the resort.
A short walk from the site, over the railway lines took us to a park and the shore of Lake Balaton. Pleasure boats sail from the tree-dotted pier and the restored, very attractive, 'Island Bath', a 19thcentury pier with changing huts had steps down into the lake for therapeutic bathing. There were some lovely photographs from the early 20thcentury showing the segregated bathing.
On then, through the centre of the town up to the impressive 1880's schloss with beautiful grounds. The grounds were open to the public without charge and we spent some time wandering though them. The schloss itself was also open at a charge and showed typical (for the aristocracy) 19thcentury living and also had ecclesiastical and coach (horse variety) museum. Well, having been to many Greek ecclesiastical museums, I have developed an aversion to them and we had seen the 19thcentury aristocratic life in Vienna. The coach museum sounded more appealing but we had an appointment with the next rugby quarter finals, so we decided to plot a different route back to the campsite.
A very late lunch was taken in front of the TV watching South Africa v Fiji. Fiji played extremely well but were finally beaten by a stronger South Africa – a very good match to watch and Fiji can be proud of their performance in the World Cup.
A short bike ride was followed by dinner and the last of the quarter finals. Argentina have been playing exceptionally well and this was always going to be a difficult match for Scotland. In the end, Scotland could have won, particularly if they had been more adventurous earlier in the match. It is great to see Argentina in the semis but sad that it had to be at Scotland's expense.
Balaton in the largest resort for Hungarians and in the Summer it is absolutely heaving with tourists. Fortunately, at this time of the year it is very quiet and all of the resorts except Keszthely have effectively closed by the end of September, certainly in terms of the campsites. We decided to perform the standard tourist ritual of wandering around the resort.
A short walk from the site, over the railway lines took us to a park and the shore of Lake Balaton. Pleasure boats sail from the tree-dotted pier and the restored, very attractive, 'Island Bath', a 19thcentury pier with changing huts had steps down into the lake for therapeutic bathing. There were some lovely photographs from the early 20thcentury showing the segregated bathing.
On then, through the centre of the town up to the impressive 1880's schloss with beautiful grounds. The grounds were open to the public without charge and we spent some time wandering though them. The schloss itself was also open at a charge and showed typical (for the aristocracy) 19thcentury living and also had ecclesiastical and coach (horse variety) museum. Well, having been to many Greek ecclesiastical museums, I have developed an aversion to them and we had seen the 19thcentury aristocratic life in Vienna. The coach museum sounded more appealing but we had an appointment with the next rugby quarter finals, so we decided to plot a different route back to the campsite.
A very late lunch was taken in front of the TV watching South Africa v Fiji. Fiji played extremely well but were finally beaten by a stronger South Africa – a very good match to watch and Fiji can be proud of their performance in the World Cup.
A short bike ride was followed by dinner and the last of the quarter finals. Argentina have been playing exceptionally well and this was always going to be a difficult match for Scotland. In the end, Scotland could have won, particularly if they had been more adventurous earlier in the match. It is great to see Argentina in the semis but sad that it had to be at Scotland's expense.
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