Our last morning in Piestany… Before leaving, we wanted to have breakfast in our favourite place where the manager was kind to pose for me by the coffee machine. There is always a queue there, and I had to wait long for a short break in a steam customer stream. I have never before seen such a great coffee shop with so many delicious varieties of coffee from many different countries in the world. They remembered us and our choices, and we got a present – a box of nuts. We agreed, I’d send them a photo from Denmark when I get back – they collect photos of countries their guests come from.
Back to Krakovany, and Lubos showed us his hangars. The aircraft on the photo below Lubos made himself using the drowning from Zenair:
One of his projects in another hangar:
A surprise smiley on the silencer:
Philip, Lubos’ son, got us the fuel:
We spent a couple of hour at Krakovany, talking flying and the flying machines. It was time to leave, and we headed for Balaton lake in Hungary first. Breathtaking Slovak landscapes:
Cerveny Kamen Castle from 13th century in the Malé Karpaty mountains – one of the most beautiful and well-preserved Slovak castles:
Crossing the border to Hungary over Danube river, Europe’s second largest river (after Volga in Russia):
Vagn and I wanted to have a lunch stop at the Balaton lake in Hungary. We chose to land at Balatonkeresztur airfield (LHBK), because it was the closest one to the water. Balaton is the largest lake in Central Europe. Approaching over Balaton from north:
The airstrip in Balatonkeresztur where we landed:
There wasn’t anybody at the airfield, and we went to the harbour where we hoped to have some lunch.
A couple of places were open, and we chose one that seamed to have food:
A short stroll by the lake after lunch:
Fishing is obviously a very popular sport or a leisure activity there – many fishermen were out:
Vagn and I couldn’t resist the opportunity to have this photo:
The happy and silly boy with the swan is Vagn (who will surely become a pilot when he grows up), and the elegant (manicured nails), feminine (fat?), and gorgeous cow is me.
When we got back to the airfield, our Rans was still safely parked by the side of that enormous Antonov in the background:
We took off for Szeged, a third largest city in Hungary in the south, close to the Romanian border. Typical villages one can see from the air in many European countries:
Lovely landscapes with rapeseed fields on our way:
Closer to Szeged it became clouded, with broken clouds at 4000 feet. But at least, the turbulence we experienced the whole day, became easier to handle. We soon were warmly welcomed in Szeged (LHUD) . A helicopter at Szeged airport:
Szeged Tower:
View to the parking place from the tower:
It was getting dark; we were tired after a day of flying. Our two-bedroom apartment in the city centre was very nice, though not as spacious as the ones we stayed in before. We bought some veggies in a supermarket nearby, had a quick dinner, and went to bed, to get much wanted rest.