Hungarian Slovakian travels...a series

The trip to Eger and cities in Slovakia will be reported as a 5 part blog. There is just too much interesting information to condense.

The chapters will roughly be;

The SEAT Ibezia, A sport wagon from Spain,

A visit to a small Hungarian village,

Eger and the famous Eger Castle,

The Eger wine cellars and Zsolt the wine seller,

13^th century castle on the Hungarian Slovakian border.

Chapter 1, the SEAT Ibezia

The rental car from Hertz was a brand new, 700 km on the odometer, SEAT Ibezia Sport Wagon. SEAT is now part of the Volkswagen Group, the factory is in Spain. The styling of the wagon is quite sleek; there is considerable room behind the rear seat however the backseat leg room was sparse. It probably is closest to the Volkswagen Jetta wagon. The controls were pretty much standard and easy to figure out. The 5 speed manual transmission was smooth and the gear ratios were proper. The 4 cylinder 1.4 liter gasoline engine performed well and had plenty of power to climb the northern Hungarian mountains. Over the 500 km trip we used 31.87 L of petrol, you will have to figure the MPG if so inclined; I’m just not that smart, but it seems really good. The fuel was 391.90 huf per liter, total fuel cost was 12,490 huf. Remember the forint, or huf, is about 187 to the USD. It is interesting that the Hungarians have adopted the ridiculous policy of having the price of fuel end in point 9. This must be some international conspiracy as it makes no sense or cents. At least the Hungarians have eliminated the 1 forint coin and they rarely mess with the 5 forint coin, rounding everything to the 10 which is still only ½ cent. It’s the principle. Anyway, the car was just OK, it was sportier and more powerful than the Suzuki we rented for the Romanian trip but was smaller in the rear passenger compartment. If you are really interested you can look at SEAT’s web site.