People have to
bring their own servants and other effects. I should say a portable
stove would not be a bad item amongst the luggage.
The Borsek waters are very much drunk throughout Hungary, especially
mixed with wine. Everywhere I noticed that eight people out of ten would
take water with their wine at meals. In the district round there is
splendid pasturage for cattle. Large numbers of cattle fed in these
parts are now sent to Buda-Pest and Vienna. The serious drawback to
Borsek is its great distance from a railway. The nearest station is
Maros Vasarhely, which is nearly ninety miles away. The drive between
the two places is very fine--that is, the scenery is fine, but the road
itself is execrable. A telegraph wire connects Borsek with the outside
world, but the post only comes twice a-week.
[Footnote 21: The waters of Borsek are much taken as an "after-cure."]
CHAPTER XXVI.
Moldavian frontier--Toelgyes--Excitement about robbers--Attempt at
extortion--A ride over the mountains--Return to St Miklos.
Instead of going back to St Miklos by the same route, I resolved to
diverge a little if the weather permitted. I wanted to visit Toelgyes, a
village on the frontier of Moldavia, which is said to be very pretty.
The weather decidedly improved, so I rode off in that direction. The
road, owing to the late rains, was in a dreadful state. All the mountain
summits were covered with fresh snow; it was a lovely sight.
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