Last weekend we went to a place northeast of Budapest, near Tokaj. We left on Saturday and drove for two and a half hours to a place where, more than fifty years ago, someone mined a hole for some reason. Then 60 degree water burst out, and ever since it has been depositing salt there. The water is cooled and then put in a thermal bath for tourists. Then we drove another hour to a different thermal bath that is in caves. It was a bit more like an ordinary pool than I expected, but a terrific pool. It was in a large cave complex, with lots of passages and hard to be sure you’ve explored it all. Then we got dinner. Really nice pizza that was under thirty euros for eight drinks and three large pizzas. Then we got a hotel, watched most of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King on TV in Hungarian, with Hungarian subtitles for the Elvish which we couldn’t tell apart from the Hungarian. Next day we drove another hour to Tokaj and toured a wine cellar, dad tasted some wine and bought some, then we walked for about six kilometres up a mountain and then down a mountain. It was about twenty percent grade up for about two kilometres.