Here's a quick dump of some of my vacation pictures from Hungary this August.

Pictures are (in sequence of events) from Eger, a wine-district east in Hungary, Budapest at the national day and at Erzsébet kilátó outside Budapest central for a great view.

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While in Stavanger there was no way we could not go to Preikestolen (Pulpit rock) hovering 600 meters directly over Lysefjorden.

I've never been there before and Hajni wanted very much to see it, so I took a day off from shooting and we went out there. The trip from Stavanger to the top and back took us roughly 7-8 hours so it was definitely something we needed the full day for.

First pictures shows us on the ferry on our way to Tau from where the bus went up to Preikestolhytta, our vantage point before doing the walk up to the mountain. For those of you not accustomed to seas, fjords and ferries travelling those, there's also a shot of the ferry and how things work around here :P

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After getting back from Budapest, we went to Stavanger. Besides being close to Høle, where the national championship in field-shooting which I was attending, it was also pretty close to Preikestolen (Pulpit rock) which Hajni most definitely wanted to check out.

The following pictures are random pictures just from Stavanger. Preikestolen is in the next post.

Most of these pictures shows of Stavanger's more old-fashioned and romantic sites, with the third one showing Hajni near one the signature old, crooked roads in the old-Stavanger district.

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Here's some vacation photos from our trip to Budapest this summer.

First picture is from Hanji's grandmother's place out in Tök. In the picture you can see me, Hajni's brother David and the dog is called Sofia.

The following pictures are from our trip out to Siófok, a small city by the lake Balaton, the biggest lake in Central Europe. We had a pretty nice hotel, with the needed pools, poolside bars and a bit of sun.

As you can see there was also quite a bit of wind, but that didn't stop us from getting huge, inflatable seaside toys. Last shot is the view we had from out hotel-room. Not the best for a seaside hotel, but there were construction work being done near the rooms with a semi seaside-view, so this was very much preferable.

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So again, shitty iPhone pictures, blame the Germans for serving obviously drunk people, etc etc.

First four are just to show off about half of my wonderful, spacious hotel-room. I spent near no time here.

Pictures five to eleven shows off some classical sights and monuments which I would love to name and give a background history for, but I can't. Should still give a decent impression of what you can encounter walking around the city though.

Picture twelve shows some stone monument which would probably have been banned on sight in the US, but Hungarians are not prunes, so it's all cool.

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First off a warning: This is another "one week in one blog-post"-post so it will be long and at the same time be lacking in detail, but you'll just have to live with that. Eat it up or find something else to do :D

After partying and exhausting myself completely in Prague I went off to Budapest. I might upset some people saying this, but I it didn't really happen much there. Much to my satisfaction I might add. I actually didn't visit a single club while in Budapest. I most definitely needed a rest at this point.

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So this is the extensive list of beers I sampled while in Czech in what I do believe is more or less chronological order:

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First picture here shows the gate to the brewery, which can also be seen on the seal of every bottle of Pilsner Urquell for sale.

Third shows a vending-machine I would very much like to have at home.

Fourth and fifth shows have chess is done the Plzen way. Not very practical, but seeing a few people actually playing a round, it looked amusing indeed.

Next up shows the huge tanks used for making beer these days. Not sure how much beer they can make a day, but the bottling facility handles around 60,000 bottles an hour. That is mighty impressive.

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So I decided to take a short daytrip out to Plzen, the town where Pilsner Urquell is made. Arguably one of the protobeers responsible for the beer revolution we had in Europe and without a doubt something which should be considered historically relevant. Interested in history and the origins of things, nothing could stop me from going here.

When I mentioned this to the cab-driver taking me to the hotel the first day, he offered me to drive there, wait for whatever I did and take me back for 2400 Czk (around 100 euros). He advised against taking the train, since it was slow and unreliable. He said train was about 2 hours, and he could get me there in less than 1.

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These are all crap iPhone pictures so forgive me about the quality. I lost my camera in Munich earlier this summer and my man there still haven't been able to dig it up.

Lots of these pictures are just general pictures conveying the historical feeling you get from the city itself. Lots of old, detailed architecture with graving and what seems a disgust with the simple and plain. Still some comments should be added.

First one shows my most excellent bed at the hotel. These things matters. Second one shows a church nearby my hotel. It is also my only proof for having been up before 10 o'clock on a vacation day, so I though I'd just add it :P

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