It’s a long way to Miskolctapolca

Our next great adventure in walking in Europe is getting close.

Monday evening, Marty Szabo and I leave for Budapest.  From there we’ll go on to Eger, Hungary. From Eger we will spend the next 6 days hiking through Hungary’s Bukk National Park (Bukki Nemzeti).

More on the itinerary later, but from Eger, the walk takes us through Felsotarkany, Szilvasvarad, Repashuta, Lillafured, and ends in Miskolctapolca. (There will be a spelling test later).  

As in our other walks in Ireland, England, and Spain, we’ll be walking village to village, inn to inn, with day packs. Our other bags will be driven forward for us.  All we’ll have to do is walk the 12 to 16 miles a day between inns, and deal with the elevation gains of up to 2100 feet on the longest day. (!)

Why Hungary?  Although John Nelson and Dick Gamertsfelder have been part of one or more of these walking adventures,  Marty and I have paired up on all of them. The two of us agreed that before we hang up our trekking poles, we would do walks in each of our homelands. If you haven’t guessed, Hungary is the home of the Szabos. The Strickland turn will come when we walk the Lake District in England in one of the upcoming years.

This adventure won’t be over when the walk is done. There’s a pretty awesome after party planned. When we return to Budapest, we’ll meet up with Scott and Pat Kremers, who are leaving Charlotte a couple of days after us. They’ll go to Paris and Munich (Scott’s birthplace) before joining up with us.  From there, the four of us will ultimately come back to Charlotte together. Via Vienna, Prague, and Paris.

More on that as we go along.

And in case you're wondering, pictured are Hungarian Racka sheep. We'll see them along our walk in the Park. Seems sheep are part of most of our walks.