Day 69 - Kosice to Siofok, Hungary

We woke up to the first blue skies for a few days, although the wind was cool as we drove towards the Hungarian border. On a nice new stretch of highway we were pulled over by the police and told to get out of the car, but we weren't told our crime. We went to a police van where a policeman sitting at a desk showed us a sheet with a sliding scale of speeding fines, our eyes were drawn to the €600 fine as we were told it was an on the spot fine and not the type we have at home, we had to pay on the spot. He explained that we were going 70km/h in a 60km/h zone and the fine is normally €40 but he would give it to us for €20. Who knew fines today were being offered at a 50% discount, Saturday morning special? M thought we had got out of it lightly and a few minutes later our phones pinged with a telecommunications message to say that we were in Hungary. We had crossed some invisible border, it must have been the last chance for the Slovak police to catch the tourists.

We stopped in the quiet city of Eger for a coffee, we also visited a museum of confectionery where everything was made out of marzipan, interesting ... but not that interesting!

From there we continued on to Lake Batalan, and by the time we arrived in Siofok on the edge of the lake the wind was ferocious and the kite surfers were taking full advantage of it while we were being blown to pieces. Siofok was much quieter than we expected so we spent the evening in the nice garden of our hotel.