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Hungary being a great wine-producing country, there was no way wine lovers like us were going to miss the chance to discover it 😋. Wine is made all over the country, so we had to choose which region to explore—a decision that would also shape the geography of the rest of our journey. With the current fuel price situation, we’ve had to rethink how we travel, planning our route more carefully, limiting the number of kilometers, and inevitably leaving some beautiful places aside. So we decided to head east again, first stopping in Eger, where the vineyards even made their way into our bedroom 😂. It’s a very charming town, dominated by its castle, where a major battle took place in the 16th century between the Hungarian and Ottoman armies.  Led by István Dobó (he’s the guy on the statue), the Hungarians managed to repel a much larger army; the ratio ranging from 2 to 17 to 1 depending on the source… It all depends on which side the historian is on 😉. Needless to say, this historica...

Spring has arrived! 🌸 The sun is out, temperatures are rising, and nature is slowly but surely waking up—to our greatest delight 🌞. It actually inspired us to do a bit of decorating in the van.  Jérôme named her Rosalie. He talks to her every day and, so far, she’s proving to be a very good travel companion 😊. So it was in this springtime atmosphere that we continued our exploration of Transylvania, stopping in charming towns and villages, going on a few hikes, and visiting several sites—including one that’s quite out of the ordinary: the Turda Salt Mine (Salina Turda). It’s a former salt mine that was exploited from the Middle Ages until 1932. There are several salt deposits in the region, believed to have formed 13.5 million years ago when the area was covered by a shallow sea in a tropical climate. In Turda, the salt layer can reach a thickness of up to 1,200 meters 😲. Over the centuries, people kept digging and digging to extract this precious resource, creating an impressi...