Hungary August 2019

Thursday to Sunday was a mixture of agony and ecstasy.

Your ride To The Stages

The thrill of participating on these stages and rubbing shoulders with the best of the best.

The only way I can capture these moments are in these videos.

We would have loved to shoot better scores but the learning and enjoying took over any other emotions.

We enjoyed the local food as usual. The wine is good.

We learned a bit of the language to get by.

We loved the safety, the simplicity and the culture of this country.

It was sad in a way to leave on Monday as it was a very short trip this time, but we will definitely be back in Hungary in the very near future.

Hungary August 2019

After a very stressful time obtaining our temporary import permits for the shotguns for

Our House In Godollo

the World Compak Championships in Hungary and the registration of them on Emirates, we were finally all prepared for this trip.

Emirates was good as usual and at Ferenc Liszt Airport, Hungary we had to wait about two hours for the 22 shooters permits to be issued.

The weather is full on summer and first we went into Budapest to collect our ammo.

Varaszlo Main Intersection

I think we are becoming seasoned travelers when we start recognizing sights along the way and also know our way around. 

We have a house in Godollo which is about 25 minutes drive

Traffic in Varaszlo

from the shooting range in the forest just outside Galgamacsa.

Monday was practice day and what an eye opener. Even practice day runs smooth. Everything works. No queues, No broken machines. No broken clays.

Tuesday we were keen to make the 300km trip down to Somogy County. We had appointments with the estate agent in the beautiful region just past the Balaton Lake.

Our Favourite House In Varaszlo

Typical Hungarian houses with cellars and outbuilding. All have fruit trees and vegetable gardens and they love their flowers even though they don't mow the lawn too often. Then on the verge of a forest in the village of Varaszlo we saw what we think we could like in. a Lovely house with part of the property running into the forest.

Big decision to be made and lots of homework to be done.

Garden At Our Favourite House

Wednesday evening was the opening ceremony held at the equestrian estate which was about ten minutes from our house. I thought I would be more excited about this but the occasion is really blown up. It could be that I am not that patriotic as before.

We were treated to goulash with pasta or gnocchi and wine and collected our goody bags consisting of back packs and a bottle of wine.