{"id":797,"date":"2015-11-12T16:12:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/?p=797"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:55:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:55:52","slug":"151112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/151112\/","title":{"rendered":"151112"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A forced early start this morning, at the dentist by 8:00 am. She conscientiously worked on fine-tuning my bite; I expect once my teeth settle down I&#8217;ll have to do that again at home. Of course, I have to do that when my teeth are worked on at home as well.&nbsp; Expectations adjusted I&#8217;m calling this a success.<\/p>\n<p>From the nearby train station I hopped on a train to Eger, 140 km away. Besides the usual fretting about changing trains<\/p>\n<p><em>Are we there yet?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I arrived in Eger and headed to the castle. Eger serves as a tourist town for Hungarians, very picturesque with a number of local attractions (tower, castle, basilica, churches, park, etc.). While the town cleaned up nicely, in the outskirts are large numbers of the old Communist-era housing buildings. I estimate 10% of the town population lives within them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-wp-1447361446641.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1447361446641\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-wp-1447361446641.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the castle, which includes a number of sub-attractions within. When they finish the reconstruction of the church the castle will be even better. Afterwards I pondered whether I could go from there to another town 60 km farther down the rail line. Given that night now falls by 5:00 pm, I instead decided to savor visiting the town, and wandered my way through the available sights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-wp-1447361390236.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1447361390236\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-wp-1447361390236.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Returning to Budapest, I ran into some confusion over which train went to Budapest, but ended up on a direct line this time, so no need to fret on the way back (even thought I, of course, did). Again at Keleti Station, I wandered an irregular route back to the hostel. <\/p>\n<p>Taxi to the airport tomorrow at 5:00 am. As a backup plan, the train station nearby also has taxis, and I know what the maximum amount should be for the fare. <\/p>\n<p>Homeward bound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A forced early start this morning, at the dentist by 8:00 am. She conscientiously worked on fine-tuning my bite; I expect once my teeth settle down I&#8217;ll have to do that again at home. Of course, I have to do that when my teeth are worked on at home as well.&nbsp; Expectations adjusted I&#8217;m calling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/151112\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;151112&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}