 Hello ladies and gentlemen and thank you for joining me and welcome to Schumann Castle in Hungary. We're looking down on the town from the castle and up here this is the castle which we're going to have a look around. And it's up here on this big hill, it's quite windy up here, it's about 25 degrees but really windy. So it's not too hot a day just to wind, we'll interview you in the video. Now admittedly I don't know too much about the history of the castle because most of the information here. There's a lot of information but it's all in Hungarian. Well actually there is a load of English information so I'll read it afterwards and I'll put some key dates in now. So now you've got an idea of the history of the castle, a very basic history castle. Let's have a look around. We're coming to here, this is one of the rooms, you can see all the spears and everything. Everywhere the guards would have sat, they'd have ate and breath as they guarded the castle. We'll go in the court around the castle, it's quite a fascinating castle. Now where should we go? Let's go, this is the main courtyard here. It's had quite a lot of money spent on it, it was probably 30 years ago, it was a complete ruin. So it really is a castle that you can look around. If we go into the middle of the castle you can see they've got a few horses and the donkey. There in the middle of the castle, a couple of donkeys and a horse. Let's go up into the bathroom and have a look at the views of both of the castle and of the surrounding area. So to give you an idea whereabouts I am in Hungary, we're just an awful late ballad on. But you might be able to glimpse it into this, that's when we get up here. We're in the Vestbrim county, I have obviously made videos of the late ballad on in the past. So if you're interested have a look at this one, look at the link on screen. This is one of my previous visits to the late ballad on. You can see it kind of was a ruin. It's making it easier to get this area here. So we came in up the keep and just be able to glimpse it. It's just over there, basically right over there. I can see a thin strip of it. To Pulsar, a sunny day, very nice weather. Just a bit too windy at the town centre. And then on that side you've got the hills. The hills sort of form a ridge that run along both ballad on. I have walked in them in the past. I'd like to explore more of them really. There might not be much going on. And get more lovely horses down there and the donkeys. Let's go, this looks exciting. I've not been down this bit yet. Let's get down here to explore this part of the castle. It's just exciting. Just to give you an idea, it's about one in, about three, one in, two in places. It's incredibly steep. I think they're going to do a demonstration of milking goats. They'll have some goats running around earlier. Straight road, that's the road I came on. Railway station is just down there, Schumeg railway station. The amount of times I've seen this castle from the train. And I've always thought that I should come up here and visit it. So here we are today. I'm finally made to Schumeg castle. Schumeg vat, as I speak in Hungarian. You can hear the castle cockerel down there. We'll go down and have a look in a minute. See this walnut tree down there. As we can hear, but maybe not be able to see. But we'll have a look down there quite soon. We see, can't really see. They are directly below us. And I'll be able to look at the view. And there's the Hungarian flag flying cloud. There on that tower. It's quite interactive here. You can have a go at, you know, I'm not going to do it. But I'll see if I can. So you can do all the torchet things. I'm a bit worried about tying myself in. In case someone comes along and starts torturing me. If I put my legs in like this. And then I'll take my rucksack off. Lie down. I just said I wasn't going to do it. Here I am. I can't quite fit my head in. But yeah, you can, you get the picture. It's interactive. I'm going to get out again. So, yeah, I was a bit worried about staying there for too long. Somebody might come along and start hitting me with this stick. Which is chained to the bench. So it gives you an idea of the torture. There's also quite a lot of medieval games and stuff. Which I've seen people playing. That looks like a modern hotel just down there. So I think what they've done is spent a lot of money on the refurbishing parts of it. There's a chimney down there. I know why there's a chimney. I'll get onto that in a minute. I don't know what's directly below here. I think I've picked apart the castle where everyone is. When I came here earlier it was quite busy. But now it's a bit quieter. So it's a sort of a half ruin of, you know, indoors. So you can see people down there. I think they're all watching the goats being milked. That's one of the shows which they do. There's the donkeys walking around. And they were doing horse rides for children earlier. Now if we go up here, it looks as though parts of this are fairly new. Like they've only just stored, perhaps they're working on it. Perhaps if we had to come another time. It says in English, construction area. Keith Herald, I did get the picture. I wasn't allowed to go there. So maybe in the future we'll be able to walk around there. I've been in this part of the castle. It's quite nice. This tower here. So those hills basically are from North of Balaton. Now if you can hear some more talking from down there. There's some sort of horse show going on down there. So that's what you can hear. This is really nice. I know it's not an exact ruin. But how they've rebuilt it and put the roof on and everything. I think it's quite nice. Quite sheltered. It was raining. You could stand here and look out. I'm not waiting for training. I haven't actually seen any trains today. But you could wait and see a train if you wanted to. How do we get down? Perhaps there isn't another way down apart from the way I came up. I thought I was going to be able to get down this side. But obviously I can't. So I have to go back. But that doesn't matter. What we'll do, we'll go to the other side of the castle. There are a few things below here which I wanted to show you. And then we'll go and have a look around the less ruined part of the castle. And see what else we can see. I wanted to show you why there's a chimney there. We'll get onto that in a minute. Once we get back down. Give us another opportunity to look at the views. Like we did earlier. So yeah, again, that's that long one. Let's walk through this. I really like this part of the castle. Walk through there and we'll go back down into the Barbican. So down below us is the animals. Stables where the animals live at night. That's it. So when you come up here, that's where you pay to go in. Go to... Just wind the leaf where we... What's in there? Is that a... So you can even have a beer in here if you wanted to. So that's worth knowing. Just couldn't have a look through here. These look like bits that have come off the castle. Stony work off the castle. So it's being catalogued in here to come out into... So they've sort of set up like an amphitheater. So if they want to do demonstrations in the middle, they can go to... Just around here, there's all these grapes growing. See all these grapes? They've got grapes. These are two of the donkeys. One there. There's a donkey here. Hello. There's one of the donkeys. Now we're going to look at the animals. So a moment ago, we were up there. So here we are. This is the cockerel. Make it here. Making it noise. I don't know if... Here, there's a rabbit as well. A rabbit in there and a duck. So these are the stables. Oh, look. See that? That's a bit of a joke, but it basically says, can you find a needle in the haystack? So I think in there, there's a needle. Probably a slightly bigger than normal needle, but there's a needle hidden in there. See if there's any animals. Oh, look. There's a goat. Hello goats. I think they're the male goats. And this must be one of the female goats. Hello. And I said, see ya. That's hello. Pigeonals. Pigeonals is what you're doing. She's actually licking the salt. Hodge here, if not, that's what's your name. In fact, we can see what her name is. She's one of these. I'm not sure which one, though. Right, I'm going to go now. Vislac. Irvendek. Vislac. Goodbye, Irvendek. It's nice to meet you. Anyway, my Hungarian is not as good as it used to be. This is my first visit to Hungary since January 2020. Prior to that, I was here all the time. And I was just twisted by my uncle there. And my Hungarian got better than it was now, let's say. Anyway, let's continue to explore the castle. So we've still got a bit more to keep, which was where I was going to finish the video. I'm going to go up to the keep and we'll be able to see the views, a few more views and see inside. If you were to come and visit the castle and you didn't have a car, you can get here by train. As I said, there is a railway station here. But from Budapest, it would take you quite a long time. I'd suggest if you were on holiday in Balaton, then it would be feasible to come and visit. That's a bit of a joke, says the nursery. So you complete your children in there, and leave. I think most people just take a picture and they get them out again. So let's have a look. What else can we see? The wine cellar, look at that. And then from wine to something completely different, this is the castle's chapel. It's like they've put a bit more of a new roof on it. It's obviously had a lot of, like I said, it's had money, it's better, I think. It's been a ruined chapel. So I think the white wash walls are the original height. And they've actually put this roof on top. There's the vicar up there, looking down on us. Let's go out and we'll continue to look around the rest of the castle. We're going to go to the keep next. We come out here. And it's exciting. Some sort of steps going off in the Faris, though. I do want to go up there. Let's just have a look. Yeah, this is the torture chamber, or the dungeon. Now, it's quite low. Now, I was watching a show in here earlier. They were explaining about all the different types of torture. That's like, you know, when I put myself in that thing, because you've got a hit like that, that poor bloke's been hung. I think that bloke's about to lose his head. But there wasn't actually ever a torture chamber here. So this is kind of a bit fictional. That's what I understood from the Hungarian. I can understand more Hungarian. I can speak. So when I hear people talking Hungarian, I can pick out what they're saying. And I got that there wasn't actually a torture chamber here. And that's how I know that at the moment, there's goat's milk thing going on. They said tedge, which is the Hungarian word for milk. And that's all the goats going over there. So it's fairly obvious to me they were going to milk the goats. So we're here. Have we been here? It's far from staircase. We'll go up there. Let's just have a look through here. It's quite... I do like a castle. It's got so many different paths and passageways. You never quite sure where you are. So, you know, I see where we are. Moment of view. Five minutes ago. So, we came down those steps and we went down there. Now, let's have another look at the view. Then we'll go up to the keep of the castle. There's another nice view. We'll go upstairs. I think the difference in this in the ruined British castle, I think this is an impression, there's always extra rooms, which I don't overly mind, but I just don't think that we do that in the British ruined castle. We're going to go up this small staircase now, as soon as people have fish coming down it. So, if there's anyone else coming up, let's go. This is a fairly modern spiral staircase, put in for the convenience of the visitors. It's going to be windy up here. We should get confused, but mind we have to talk a bit. So, where are we? Just down there. This is the keep now. Let's go in here. So, as we come into here, that's interesting. Here's an old map of Hungary. It used to be a lot bigger than it was. So, if you look at this map, let's have a look. It sounds like... How would you say that? That's what we now know today as Bratislava. So, that's Slovakia. So, what is mostly Slovakia was once Hungary, Miskog, which is Hungary, but then, see, Hungary once went right down to the coast. Zagreb was in Hungary. Osiek was in Hungary, which is Croatia. Vukovar, which is infamous for the Battle of Vukovar in the Serbian Croatian War. Nodžvar, which I've been to. That's known as Osiek. If you want to see my inspirations of Nodžvar, I'll have a look at the account screen now. We're now going to go to my channel, because we're now going to go in here. This is nice. I like that. That's a form of radiator. So, I think that they make it fine on the inside. And it's the room one. You can see the Middle Eastern European castles. I've never seen one quite like in the UK. I've seen them in Czech Republic. I've seen them in Slovenia. Alright, let's go up the tower now. So, we have now arrived at the top of the tower. We'll do it. We'll go back down and outside, and then I'll finish the video. Quite a few people have come up the stairs. As soon as they've come up, we'll go down to have a look out the window. So, we'll now go back down the stairs. So, I hope you've enjoyed this little exploration of Sumeg Castle. It probably is one of the most famous castles in Hungary. It's certainly one I've always wanted to visit for a long time. So, I'm glad to have finally visited this castle. It feels really bright now, now we're outside. We'll do a go-in and we can have a look at a good view out over the tower. Let's get in the wind again. So, this is the chapel roof again. So, from Sumeg Castle, thank you very much for watching. Kusunam, Siphen, Visan, Plata, Astra. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. Unfortunately, I don't know how to say that in Hungarian, but thank you very much for watching. And if you're Hungarian, then you know what I mean best.