I was warned that this town was a throwback to Cold War Era Eastern Europe. Not entirely far off.

It was a 3 hour van ride from Vienna through some extremely interesting, and extremely rural countryside. Went right to work on arrival at the production facility I was visiting, which seemed rather out of place. Very modern in just the middle of nowhere. Arriving at the Hotel Arany Barany, which is in the center of the town, the first thing you notice is, well, it's very dark. And I've not seen dark wood paneling in my hotel room since the 1970's. I do have free internet access though.

You notice how unmodern the hotel is when you realize there is no smoke detector in the hotel room. This hotel is very old. But given there's only two hotels in the town and this one is reportedly the more modern one, it makes me wonder what the other hotel is like.

You seriously wonder if someone is going to jump out of the hallway and scare you as you walk down the hallway. You hope the motion sensors for the lights work (you walk out the elevator and it's pitch dark until you step out and the motion sensors turn the lights on in the hall).

I have to admit I slept with the light on last night.

Hopefully more later!