Kylie must have been here, doing the Holloko. It’s a 13 C village of some specific ethnic group which became a UNESCO site in 1987. Today the houses are holiday apartments – basically fine: younger people don’t want to live as there forebears and creating the “preserved” village became what kept it alive.
Which can’t be said about a lot of the former industrial sites and towns we went through day. Ex-coal mining, iron/steel buildings. Some tips. A lot like parts of South Wales Valleys, frozen” in time and deprivation. There are a lot of people, mainly women, cleaning the streets and ditches. I suspect not “My Green Valley” volunteers – more like a local employment scheme.
In between there are sunflowers, fields of wheat and forests. And hills.
Tomorrow to Budapest and a double “rest” day.
Travelling reflections 