Mohacs - Hungary

Well, today certainly started off differently!!  We had been warned that as we entered the Schengen area of the European Union, the free roaming area for EU citizens, there would be stricter control of passports. We were rudely awoken at 4:15 am and had to present ourselves, with our passports, to the Hungarian Border and Customs people for a face to face passport check.  That was certainly a little comical as people stumbled out of their rooms in various modes of dress, most in the ships dressing gowns, and lined up for the face check. Not sure how some of the women passed this test without their make up on though. By the time we got back to bed, there wasn’t a lot of point trying to go back to sleep, although, after sending a couple of pre-prepared emails (yes, the internet was working for a little while), Dave managed to go back to sleep for a half hour or so.

We are in Hungary this morning at a place called Mohacs. We will be doing our own thing here as the offered tours don’t grab us at all. Who wants to taste wine at 8:30 in the morning? And the Museum visit doesn’t interest us either. We only have 3-4 hours here, so we’ll ‘leg it’ again and discover the place for ourselves. Well, we have ‘done the town’ and it was a very nice town at that. The place is pleasant and clean. Shops a little on the small side, so browsing wasn’t all that easy, but we did go in couple and look around.

We are now steaming towards Budapest where we will reach around 2 pm tomorrow afternoon. So, this afternoon, most people will be trying to catch up on their sleep after this mornings interruption.