Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Leaving Budapest

We got up early to leave Budapest by 8 am. Our first rest stop, I finally got to take a picture

of a field of sunflowers. There were acres and acres of these flowers all along the rolling hills after we left Budapest.

We then drove into Slovakia and through the Carpathian mountains. It was gorgeous countryside all the way.

We stopped at a ski area in Slovakia for lunch. It was a beautiful, quaint place with excellent food. I had cabbage soup that was delicious. It had sausage in it and was very flavorful. The flower baskets on the deck were beautiful.

After crossing over the mountains to the north side and into Poland, it started to rain. Pouring rain for the rest of the trip to Krakow. At the point where we saw a sign 100 K to Krakow, which is about 60 miles, the tour manager told us it would be about 2 hours more. This was because the roads are mostly 2 lane and the closer we got to Krakow, the heavier the traffic. We arrived in Krakow about 5:30 p.m.

Dinner was a buffet at the hotel and very good. We had chicken, salmon, potatoes, vegetables and dessert was strawberry mousse and little chocolate cakes. I have found the desserts to be very edible for me since they are small and not very sweet, but very good.