Working at Chateau Dereszla has been pretty easy and involves a lot of tasting. The people are very relaxed and friendly. Having a few fluent English speakers around is helpful too.
I spent a weekend in Budapest to feel the excitement of a city again after being bored with the village life of Tokaj. Roland from work took me with him to a party of his old college friends, then I stayed at a hostel and talked with the other travellers. I was surprised that everyone there spoke English at least passably. It was another instance of me feeling lazy for not knowing another language that well. While in Budapest, I visited the House of Terror, which was the headquarters of the Nazis and the Communists. It has been turned into a museum now, showing off the disturbing things that happened there including the cells for prisoners in the basement.
Back in Tokaj, I visited another winery which had the best wines in tank and barrel that I'd tasted here so far. The cellar was a new building, but the hotel was a 200+ year-old manor house. It was cool. Speaking of cool, one day everything was covered in frost. It was very pretty, but not as warm as I would like. This is easily the coldest growing region I've worked in. But I have just two more weeks here before I fly home. Hopefully I won't be covered in ice by then.
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