We collected a hire car and stopped for coffee at the little town of Szentendre, which was right on the Danube and as it was early it wasn't too busy yet.
From there we followed the Danube Bend to Esztergom where we visited the large Basilica.
The Hungarian countryside is very agricultural and we drove through large paddocks of giant sunflowers all facing the same direction with their faces towards the sun. Along the way there was some sort of road blockage causing traffic to slow right down, so we pulled in to a roadside restaurant for lunch, where M had the chance to try some authentic Hungarian goulash soup, which was actually pretty tasty.
We stopped at Gyor for a quick look around and noticed lots of people eating ice cream sundaes at a place in the town square, it was a sunny day it it looked like the right thing to do, so we thought we'd join them.
This time just before we crossed the border to Slovakia we saw the signs to buy a vignette, they were a lot more obvious than at the the Croatia-Slovenia border. Our city for the night was the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava, which is at a triangular border also with Austria and Czechoslovakia. The Austrian and Czech influence is very obvious in the old town, all these towns are quaint and colourful.
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