Hostel66

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Szeged, Petőfi Sándor sgrt. 66, 6725 Hungary
Added by Jopie, at 12 June 2016

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• P Kaitz

  11 November 2017

  I thought that I would head south and zigzag through the Balkans. I don't know if that's possible. There are no trains from here headed anywhere of any import. To go anywhere you have to go back to Budapest. There's no mountains at the borders in this part of the country to impede movement, so the barrier is artificial. It makes it feel as if it's a closed frontier. Maybe if I had a better sense of the rail networks. This is supposed to be the third largest city in Hungary but it could be that it's the terminal of a rail spur. Other places I've been -- even really remote places -- you can wander around without plan, by train by bus by air. In China when I was there it was all train travel. I remember pouring over the cryptic abbreviations in these little train schedule booklets. Then later my mom came out to visit me and we flew from place to place. It was these old Soviet jets they still had in use that were vintage 1950s. The line was called CAAC. Strictly for internal use. In New Zealand there were buses but it was really simple to jump on a flight. Same with Argentina. In Costa Rica you'd get some really dodgy tiny prop jets and land on dirt runways. When I traveled overland in Mexico, in the southern provinces of Oaxaxa and Chiapas, it was bus and easy but uncomfortable to get around. Western Europe trains are ubiquitous. Occasionally I've rented a car and driver. I did that in the northern provinces of Salta and Jujuy in Argentina until I hit Bolivia and the border was closed. Bolivia is so steep the impediment to travel by car is the inability of engines to combust at altitude and roads are treacherous. In Costa Rica I hired a kid off the beach to drive with me inland because I thought having a native with me was a bit safer. I wanted to see Arenal, the active volcano lava flows from incessantly. The sun sets at 6 PM year round and you see these red rivers running down right in front of you. The roads in that country are so bad you wouldn't drive a bicycle across. Couple places I've hired helicopters to get somewhere or see something. This canyon on Kauai that's the wettest place on the planet with my family. Again with family relations from Shannon to the Cliffs of Moher. That time we got waylaid by wind and did a silly aerial tour instead of the granite fences of Southwest Ireland. Somewhere else I can't remember by helicopter. A few interesting water trips. Down the Yangtze from Chongqing to Wuhan before they flooded the Three Rivers Gorge. The Li River in Guilin where those fairy tale drip castle mountains are you see on poetry hangings and calendars. By ferry through the archipelago of island that are sunken Andes peaks in southwestern Chile from Puerto Montt to Puerto Natales. A land and sea crossing of the Andres in the lake country from Bariloche in Argentina to wherever in Chile we ended up. The Magellan Strait to a penguin island. The San Juan Islands from Anacortes in Washington State to Tsawwassen on Vancouver Island. Faroe Islands from Denmark. By hoover craft from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, and the Buquebus from Buenos Aires to Colonia in Uruguay a couple hours from Punta Del Este. A gazillion other places I've forgotten. The Squamscott in southern New Hampshire, the Green in Western Colorado, the Zambezi in Rhodesia, the Paraná at Iguazu, the Yellow west of Xian, the Sea of Galilee at Tiberias, Banderas Bay in Vallarta, Milford Sound on the South Island of New Zealand, Titicaca between Copacabana and las Islas del Sol y de la Luna, the Charles in Cambridge Mass., the Inner Hebrides between Oban and Mull, the Irish Sea between Dublin and Cardiff, the Río de la Plata -- widest of all rivers.
  
  cont. Excursions by Water see Lounge Hostel

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• Tomas Jancovic

  18 July 2017

  Not well equiped, everything older and used. Nice courtyard, quiet, 15 minutes walking to the centre.

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• Dušan Ković

  09 July 2017

  Good and cheap place to stay in Szeged. Good location, ok rooms, but beds and showers could be better.

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• Girizd Loránd

  07 January 2017

  Hangulatos, kellemes hely. Kevés a beléptető kulcs, de érezhetően jó a biztonság. Nincs annyi szék, mint ágy, de jó a terek kialakítása.

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• Zsolt Kálmán

  30 November 2016

  Nagyon olcsó, remek hely, ha az ember pár napra akar megszállni valahol.

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• Alessandro Gismano

  02 November 2016

  Kind and comfortable

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• Géza Király

  19 October 2016

  Egy alap hostel, közös fürdővel, konyhával. Tábori emeletes vaságyak, egy éjszaka ok

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• Zoltán Tóth

  19 June 2016

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