Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, in the shade with bread and from the bakery in Niyrbator)
Track: 🇭🇺🇭🇺 (2 out of 5, dusty, sandy track through fields, forest and villages.)
Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, flat spot in the forest)
Name of followed trail: E3, Maria Út
Special mention: Pétèr, our friendly taxi driver that helped us catch our train!
We get up in time this morning, because we have a train to catch. We ordered a taxi via Bolt, but when I look in the app, I see that the driver cancelled the ride. Now I’m happy that Mark insisted on a 7.30 taxi for a 10 minute ride to catch the 8.08 train…
Mark calls the taxi service, and Pétèr arrives within 5 minutes! This friendly man, gets us to the train station and we even manage to catch an earlier train!
It leaves us plenty of time at Debrecen to spend our last Florinths on bread, coffee and tea. I don’t really agree with the stations idea of hot tea, which seems to be heated Ice tea, but technically they have a point. If ice tea is cold tea, than heated Ice tea could be considered tea…🤔
We get to Niyrbator around 10.45 and get back om trail. It truly feels like we’ve had a holiday! We walk through the city centre and into the fields. sometimes there is a forested area. We’re grateful for that because it offers some shade in the 30+C heat. We walk the E3 trail for another 8 kilometers and then switch to the Maria út (we think it means trail). This trail takes us through Piricse, where we surprise the locals with our appearance. A boy asks us all kind of questions, but he only speaks Hungarian, and we don’t speak a word of it… He goes to his family, but they have the same problem. I show them our website I. their own language (thank you Niels for adding the translation plugin to our website!). It still results in disbelief on their faces, and more questions in Hungarian…😅
We enjoyed trying to have a conversation and say goodbye to them, before we get our water from the pump in the street. I really hope that Romania has a similar system of several working water pumps in every village! We grew accustomed to this feature really quickly and have come to trust that we can easily acces clean drinking water in every village. Thank you Hungary!
We walk out of Piricse with our bags filled with water and hike the last 7 kilometers to our campsite over sandy roads. The sand is soft and it’s a tiring walk the last few kilometers.
We find a good spot and relax a bit before we pitch our tent. Today was a short day and tomorrow also isn’t long. A nice way to restart after our holiday!
After pitching our tent and having a couscous and Kolbasa (sausage) dinner, we bring a toast to hiking Hungary, because tomorrow we’ll walk into Romania.
We enjoyed the country, even if the trail wasn’t that interesting and our time here was short. We both think that this isn’t our last visit to Hungary!
Hey jullie Hongarije avontuur zit er helaas al weer op zie ik. Die blauw witte bordjes die jullie in Hongarije tegen kwamen zijn van de Alföldi Kéktúra (blauwe laagland route vertaald) het vlakkere kleine broertje van hun nationale trots Országos Kéktúra (nationale blauwe route), de oudste gemarkeerde wandelroute van Europa. De routes met rood (witte) bordjes zijn hier, anders dan je gewend bent, ondergeschikt aan de blauw routes. Maar goed, nu Roemenië, daar kennen ze die rangorde van kleuren en diepere betekenissen van symbolen in de markeringen volgensmij niet.
Út vertaald trouwens niet naar pad maar straat (of in dit geval iets diepzinniger, weg naar maria, gezien het een groot christelijk kruis vormig netwerk van wandelpaden is die samen komen bij budapest) . Pad zou ik eerder vertalen als túra voor trail, of ösvény als je het gaat om de fysieke ondergrond waar je op loopt.
Dank voor de uitleg Thomas, dat helpt in begrijpen wat we doen en lopen. nu in Roemenië, een nieuwe wereld vol verrassingen!