As we cruise down bucolic lanes – Katrina And The Waves blasting on the stereo – golden light bathes the vineyards all around us, with Lake Balaton glistening in the distance.
I am on the brilliant new hop-on, hop-off bus service operating around Lake Balaton’s Balatonfured-Csopak wine region, the ‘Little Provence’ of Hungary – and I’m having a ball.
The bus, a 1984 DAF model with open-air seats at the back, launched earlier this year.
It’s the brainchild of Virag Szabo, a former energy firm communications director, who often spent her summer holidays in the small lakeside town of Balatonfured but, without a
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