Komarom

Justin and I took a “field trip” one Saturday afternoon to Komarom. It’s a small town that is about 15 miles from Tata on the banks of the Danube river. It was originally one town that spanned both sides of the river, but with the down-sizing of Hungary after the Treaty of Trianon, the land north of the Danube went to Slovakia, and the land south remained Hungarian. Today, the town is still split in two and there is a Slovakian and a Hungarian town. We walked through the Hungarian side, which is much younger than the Slovakian side, and has no historic city center, and then decided to head to the Slovakian side. In Slovakia, there is the historic center of the town and a new “Europe Park.” Europe Park features buildings from many different European countries all in one courtyard area. We had a nice lunch at an Italian restaurant where a little dog decided to join us and beg for food. It was a cute dog, but not so welcome at our table. We weren’t able to go into any of the three forts in Komarom - Justin has seen one of them already, but I hope to return soon to do so. It was a nice afternoon trip - maybe we're testing out how well we can handle traveling together - here's hoping we can get out and about in Hungary together. I almost pushed him into a bus at one point as a joke, but I made up for it later ;) he forgave me.