 Yonapotkiwanoch, Siastok, hello ladies and gentlemen and thank you for joining me. On this lovely winter's day we've come to Lake Balaton, now you may remember back in the summer we made another video at Lake Balaton where I went swimming in the lake, well that was on the southern shore, approximately eight miles in that direction today I've come to the northern shore town of Balochone and we're gonna have a little wander around, it's a really lovely town, it's very nice and sunny, although it's cold but it is very sunny, you know this in the summer there'll be boats waiting to take you from here to other parts of Lake Balaton, a belief is even possibly a paddle steamer, if anyone knows it would leave from here and take you across the lake, it's really pleasant here, it's just so calm the lake, it's very quiet because it's a tourist town and we are here in the off season, I think it's only quite nice about coming to tourist towns in the off season because you kind of get the place all to yourself, it really is just me and the ducks here today, so let's go and have a look, I saw a couple of swans about earlier, there's a funny sort of noise I keep hearing, I don't know if the camera's picking it out, that noise is this big lump of ice, just kind of drifting and hitting the sides of the shore because if the ducks weren't there then the ducks didn't want to be on camera, so they've jumped into the cold water rather than me, let's go and have a look around, so that way looking up like that the lake continues for a good 25 miles in that direction and probably about five miles in that direction to Cassatase, it's about 40 miles long, it's eight miles wide, there's the Tiham peninsula which is also somewhere we should go in the future, it's a peninsula that sticks right out onto the balloton and is a monastery on the hill, so that is a really nice place, that should be a hundredth of an inch of the future of what I'm doing now, I'm taking you back onto the shore off this man-made peninsula and we're just going to go and have a look around the town, now there isn't a lot going on because it is the off-season so you know it's completely different but like I say it's got this kind of sense of having the place to yourself, so I do recommend coming here, I think though if you were going to come as a tourist you really want to come in the summer, it would be completely different in the summer, there would be people everywhere, you know it would be just a completely different place and so if you come here, come in the summer it's a really nice place to have an alternative summer holiday and if you come here winter then of course it's really pleasant but it's a bit of a ghost town but you know I don't necessarily consider that a bad thing, so here I think you're possibly by your boat tickets if you were to cross the lake by boat, now as we come we're going to have a look at that in a minute. One thing I want to show you is a Hungarian beach where you would have seen one if you've seen the video where I went swimming on the southern shore, it's just to see what that fence is behind there, that is a typical Hungarian beach, now quite often you have to pay to go to the beaches, often there's a nightclub up there, not open so you pay to go on to Hungarian beaches which might seem a bit strange but then once you're on them you know you're kind of pretty safe to spend all day there and you know you can go and get a drink, go and get lunch, so the Hungarian beach is just there, so in the summer there'd be loads of people sunbathing there, there'd be little steps into the water for you to go swimming, it would be you know completely different, I'm now going to take you this way, this looks like this would be a bar in the summer which is currently open, so in the summer there'd be people serving from the bar here, so let's now go and have a wander across the road, we're going to have a look at the town centre, so for you this is the main road which runs along the northern shore but again there's not many people really here in this whole area and the railway station is just over there, so we're going to have a look at that, I'm not expecting a train to come just yet, so all this area here would be like little stalls selling souvenirs and stuff, I've got these sort of barriers here to stop you running into the road in the railway, so there's an arboretum but it's four kilometres away for the arboretum, that sounds exciting, haven't really got time to go there today, if you know just see it says Baðurčolni strand, well strand is the Hungarian word for beach, so it's just over there so that's the way you go through to get onto the beach, so crossing this very quiet road and here's the railway station, so that way it's looking towards the poulser, you've got this rather ornate set of barriers to stop you running onto the railway line and that way it's looking towards Budapest, lovely little station building and there's not a train due just yet, although my plan is to catch a train from here in the opposite direction to Budapest, head back that way to Keste, so there we have the station building, you've got a very long platform because in the summer you'll get loco hauled trains of 10 or more carriages pulled by, usually pulled by M41s but M62s make appearances, even M61s make occasional appearances, so that that's always exciting, so we've come this way now, we're coming into the centre and as I said it is a bit of a ghost town but that is only in the winter, it's not going to be like this all year round, if you came here in the summer you know there'd be people buying food from all these little cafes, there'd be souvenir shops, there'd be pubs, there'd be tables here, there'd be people sitting all along here eating food, it would be completely different so don't be put off by the fact that I'm effectively walking around the ghost town, it's only a ghost town in winter, you can see all the tables stacked up, there they'll be there and then everyone'd be just sitting there enjoying themselves and it really is worth coming to Lake Bellaton in the summer, I come here most summers and I always enjoy it, it's a great place to be so I'm going to now wander up, I'd love to go up the big hill because there's a lookout tower on the top but I'm not going to do that today, maybe in the summer so let's just go up here and I've pretty much shown you Baddichone in winter and what it's like to come to Lake Bellaton in winter, the other interesting thing is a lot of construction work going on everywhere you look, there's men on ladders you know up on roofs or there's diggers everywhere, this time of year the main people that are here are people that are refurbishing you know doing construction there, they're getting the place ready for the summer so that's what really happens at Bellaton in the winter, all the construction people are here and you know they're decorating the shops and just getting ready for another season really so from Baddichone thank you very much for watching, hope you enjoyed this video and you know if you want a different sort of holiday do think about coming to Lake Bellaton, so thank you very much for watching please feel free to like, subscribe, comment, tell your friends etc from the winemaking region of Baddichone, good bye, peace on to that asha