Escaping Eger
Our best views of the Hungarian countryside came from the window of the train during our brief stint out to Eger, a wine-producing town about a hundred miles or so from the city. Eger is most famous for a seige in 1552 where the town's Hungarian population of 2,000 held off an attach by 80,000 invading Turks. We tried to get into the castle, but were too late - and fortunately so, because had we gotten into the castle we would have likely missed the last train out (which we sprinted for after realizing we were lost on the way back)!
Unfortunately for us (or maybe for Eger's tourism profits), we only got to explore a small percentage of what it had to offer... we must have accidentally gotten on the slow train because we made so many stops it took almost three hours all in all to get to the town and the same time to get back!