We’ve done a number of breweries on our trip so far, but Budapest offered our first opportunity for a distillery tour. The Zwack company, based in the city, is the sole producer of Unicum, a Hungarian icon. Unicum is a herbal liqueur distilled over a blend of 40 different herbs and spices, then aged for …
Craft beer is big business in Budapest and it was one of the cities I was most excited to visit. Dotted around the city there are dozens of bars offering everything from tiny Hungarian microbreweries to big international names like Mikkeller and Evil Twin. We looked online for where to visit during our time in …
One Friday night last year we went, as we often did, to the pub round the corner from our flat. On our return I remembered we needed to pay that month’s water bill and asked Poppy to send her half. She got distracted and started looking at flights instead. Long story short, she ended up …
I love it when you stumble across an absolute gem by accident. This has happened twice so far on our trip, the first time in Prague and the second in Bratislava. On both occasions I have searched, admittedly rather ambiguously, for ‘castle’ looking for the main tourist ones, but been captivated by another castle somewhere …
When planning our trip, I was concerned that our time in Slovakia outside of the capital would feel rushed, especially as we we’re staying no longer then two nights in any of the towns on the route. Luckily these concerns proved unfounded. Despite being one of the most beautiful and striking countries I have possibly …
So far during this trip, we’ve mainly taken things at a fairly leisurely pace. Most places we’ve tried to stay in for at least 3 nights, plenty of time to do some sightseeing and then explore the beer scene. When it came to Trenčín, our first stop in Slovakia, however, there was no accommodation that …
