Andreas and Jennifer ready to skip town.

Owls on their way to Hungary.

Street panorama from our Airbnb.

Interesting style of wrought-iron railing.

Infill construction between layers of the old city walls.

Jennifer in a gap in the city walls that had been ornamentally filled with a clay-pipe wall.

Part of the Roman forum that was discovered during a construction project.

Looking down a narrow street.

Modern construction building off the two-millennia-old city walls.

Cubist-style courtyard door.

A memorial to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

A statue to Hungarian statesman István Széchenyi.

The Sopron Petőfi Theater.

Eyebrow windows.

Decorative doors on the Sopron Petőfi Theater.

Looking up from a building courtyard.

Andreas and Jennifer on the fire tower.

Roman gravestones found during construction in Sopron.

The Sopron main square.

The Sopron main square.

A historic room in the Sopron Museum.

Elit Cinema, Hungary’s oldest continuously operating movie theater, opened in 1926.

Monument to the 8,625 fallen soldiers of the 76th infantry regiment in WWI.

Memorial to Colonel Othmár Muhr, who died leading the Hussars into battle during WWI.

Lunch at Café Nana.

The dessert selection at Café Nana. We got there after it has been picked over.

A moai overlooking the driveway, because why not?

One of the villas built on the plans of János Schármár and József Schiller in the late 1800s.

Andreas and Jennifer at Taródi vár, a castle folly.

Storage for the wine made on site.

Garden lizard.

Jennifer with a substantial tree.

Monument to Hungarian novelist Miklós Bánffy.

Building renovation.

“The Breakthrough”, a monument to the Pan-European Picnic and European freedom.

A section of the Berlin Wall.

The visitors center built on the site of the Pan-European Picnic.

A coffee and sandwich combo available at any OMV gas station in Hungary.

Jennifer on the initial climb from the parking area.

Lunchtime panorama.

Hikers coming up a steep ridge.

Rest stop on a moss-covered log.

Marsh Marigolds growing by a spring.

Typical enclosure for making a spring easier to use.

Jennifer on a pair of intertwined trees.

Ruins of the Holy Spirit Pauline Monastery, built in the 13th century.

The trail passing through a beech forest.

Trail snacks at Fehér Sas Panzió (White Eagle Gesthouse).

Jennifer by an oddly shaped tree.

A to-be-renovated traditional country house from the late 1800s.

The front of our Airbnb.

The back porch of our Airbnb.

Lunch at Iszkor restaurant.

Dessert at Iszkor restaurant.

Colored glass bottles in the window of our Airbnb.

Modernized traditional Hungarian house.

Owls at Sólyom-bérc with Regéc castle in the background.

The view from Sólyom-bérc.

Jennifer climbing over a fence ladder.

A dry Tokaji Szamorodni by Karádi-Berger from 2018.

Public water pumps are present all over small towns.

An Aesculapian snake crossing the trail.

Meadow panorama.

One of the hiking huts in the park.

An area of the forest with birch trees.

Panorama from Nagy-Péter-mennykő, the highest lookout in the Zemplén mountains.

Andreas and Jennifer at a trailhead.

Statue of Francis II Rákóczi, who lead a war of independence against the Habsburgs.

Looking across the 723-meter span of the Bridge of National Unity.

A cluster of homes with garden vineyards.

Shiny solar panels, which we’re seeing everywhere.

The bridge from the opposite end.

Jennifer on the Bridge of National Unity.

Looking down in the middle of the bridge.

Afternoon coffee at Csepp Kávézó.

Ruins of a Pauline Monastery.

Hiking through the woods.

Regec Castle off in the distance.

A mistletoe-covered tree.

Owls having coffee and ice cream.

Reconstruction work rebuilding the castle walls.

The reconstructed north tower and residential quarters.

Our Airbnb from the upper garden terrace.

Covered outdoor area next to the house.

Steps leading to the upper garden terrace.

Jennifer at the main entrance.

A Lada Niva mini 4x4.

Coffee and sour-cherry pie.

Mosaic in the town square of Tokaj, a center of wine production.

Budapest's most famous door by Hungarian artist Gergely Void.

Chair blankets for staying warm while eating outside.

A mini fire truck.

Street art by Paraman at Mika Tivadar Kert.

St. Stephen's Basilica from a side street.

Coffee and lemon cake.

Snake wrought iron grille.

Glazed tile columns.

Cool building facade.

Pistachio cake and coffee.

Jennifer on the Budapest ziggurat.

Looking north along the Danube from the top of the ziggurat.

Monument to the old national theater.

Memorial to Hungarian stage and film actor József Timár.

An entrance to Bajor Gizi park.

Looking up in the courtyard of the Millennium Gardens building.