Visit : 12th of sept.2024

Early in the morning I took the train from Miskolc,Hungary's third biggest city,to Tokaj where I arrived around 12.00.I went straight to my rented apartment where I was received with a glass of Tokaj wine.I then strolled through the little town of Tokaj and visited both the unesco museum and the Tokaj museum.....both are only mildly interesting.I then went to the Rakoczi cellars to take part in a wine tasting. 

I was the only participant. The wine guide spoke excellent english.I tasted 6 different wines and had some snacks.I could then stroll through the cellars freely without a time limit. I bought a bottle of wine and asked for a plastic cup. They opened my bottle halfway so that I could later open the cork without the help of a cork opener. Just around the corner is another winery,the Himesudvar winery,where I had another glass of wine before I  set off to climb up the nearby hiking trail that led along the cemetery. Once I got to the next path, I decided to take the hiking trail to the TV tower. All in all, it took me about 50-60 minutes to reach the TV tower. The day was warm and sunny. I sat down in front of the TV tower, opened the bottle of wine and enjoyed the view. Unfortunately, I forgot the time and was pretty drunk at that point of time.

I began my descent when it was still light, but darkness set in about halfway through. To descend, I took a different path that would take me through the middle of the vineyards. The path wasn't super dangerous, but treacherous because of the many stones and the risk of tripping...especially in the dark.
When I reached the vineyards it was already quite dark.The path ended near the Breza Pince wine bar near the Tokaj train station. The street Hegyalja Uct along the railway tracks towards the center turned out to be quite an interesting one, full of wine bars (most of them closed) and traditional houses. I found an open one, had another glass of wine there and then walked for about 20 minutes through the whole of Tokaj to my accommodation.Tokaj is not a particularly exciting place, but I enjoyed my time there with the two museums, the wine tasting in the most known wine cellar , the wines in various wine taverns, the pleasant little town, the hike up the local mountain and through the wine fields.