Next week Daniel and I are planning to travel deep into Transylvania (central Romania) with Iago, so today the three of us set off to see a town just across the Hungarian-Romanian border as a bit of a practice run.
Carei (known as Nagykároly in Hungarian) is about 12 kilometres from the Hungarian border. It was settled in the early 14th century and remained part of Hungary until towards the end of the Second World War. Its major tourist attraction is Károlyi castle.
After some searching Daniel and I did manage to find the castle, but unfortunately it didn't seem to be open for tours as it's currently undergoing significant renovation works. Still we had fun walking around the castle gardens and sharing a yummy pizza at a nearby restaurant. Iago also enjoyed the trip as he was able to befriend most of Carei's stray dog population.
The only negative element of the trip occurred as we were crossing back over the border into Hungary. The border guard seemed very annoyed that I had a Hungarian passport but didn't speak or understand much of the language. It made me feel bad :(
On a funnier note, here is the result of our first attempt at using the self-timer on our camera. It seems that the auto focus option was accidentally disabled when the back of the chair that we had the camera resting on pushed the touchscreen during the countdown. I kind of like the blurry effect!
- Amanda
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