Tuesday, Aug. 30 - Erd, Hungary (near Budapest) Grocery shopping

On our free day today, we walked to a nearby hypermarket for groceries.   Well, it wasn't so near (1.2 km each way)  We were glad to stop in the shade to rest, and then to get home.

Thank goodness for pictures on food containers.  German was puzzling to us and Hungarian even more so.  It is distantly related to Finnish.  The packaging on pasta and pasta sauce is often in Italian. 
The Interspar hypermarket sells just about everything.  We were careful not to load up on drinks and other heavy goods.  You have to take your own bags and load them.  Also in Germany and here too, you have to pay a one euro deposit to unlock a shopping cart in the parking lot, and then you get it back when you return the cart.  No stray carts here!

Stanley spent 7239 florints on groceries.

Bob takes our cart up the escalator.


Our Garmin GPS is working fabulously well.  The map of Europe and Turkey is on a micro SD card--absolutely tiny but has incredible detail.  We left the main highway on Saturday to look at some "points of interest".  All the little back roads were on the GPS!  We also have a trip log and a road atlas to use.  Generally we travel in groups of 2 or 3 RVs.

This afternoon I have time for another swim and a briefing on tomorrow's travel at 5:00.  Then we cook some kind of hamburger meat dinner and go for a evening tour of Budapest.  Tomorrow we travel 240 km. to Mako, Hungary.  After that, on to Romania.