The food in Zalaegerszeg has been surprisingly good. Ate well every night I was there. And every lunch I was there. Our hosts were apparently pulling out all the stops. And definitely doing a good job. I have a lot of pictures from the trip and will hopefully in another entry highlight some of the pictures I found the most fascinating.

In addition to the food, there were a few other redeeming points that I ended up finding. The town is major enough to have a Citibank. The people seemed friendly enough (to someone who didn't speak anything remotely sounding like the local language), and there definitely wasn't much traffic. the town was virtually a ghost town after 8pm in the evening.

Gas, like in the rest of Europe, is expensive. About 310 Forints per liter. Given an exchange rate of approximately 160:1 and 4.5 liters per gallon, this works out to about $8.71 per gallon? Wow.