Budapest was nice enough but it’s good to be heading to somewhere with an easier language. Hungarian almost defeated me. However, on my final morning, waiting at the station for my train to Austria, I manage to order and pay for a coffee entirely in the Magyar tongue. Take that, Hungarian!
Continue readingDay 10: Sunday in Budapest
18 May
Today is mostly a Buda day. My hotel is in Pest, the station I arrived in is in Pest, and the boat trip went from that side too, but today I’m venturing across the river.
Continue readingDay 9: Saturday in Budapest
17 May
My new hotel has a light on the smoke alarm that flashes so brightly, I can see it through my eyelids, and people upstairs in the dentist’s (I think) decide it’s a good idea to move furniture around at 5am, but I have cunningly brought an eye mask and earplugs with me – essentials for travel.
Continue readingDay 8: Vienna to Budapest via Bratislava
16 May
First a quick film review of Before Sunrise. It’s a film in which not much happens. It’s basically a couple of self-involved people in their early 20s talking to each other for two hours. My advice would be to watch this when you are as young as possible, while their conversations still seem profound rather than inane. I expect I would have enjoyed this much more when I was a student but I haven’t the patience any more.
Continue readingDay 7: Thursday in Vienna
15 May
The weather did indeed break. It’s not very rainy but it’s much, much colder. I’m in a jumper today.
Continue readingDay 6: Wednesday in Vienna
14 May
It is another beautiful day, so the shorts are making a second appearance. The weather is supposed to break tomorrow, so this is the perfect day for doing outdoor things, like walking “The Ring”, an approximately circular collection of boulevards that circles Vienna city centre and contains a staggering number of world-class buildings.
Continue readingDay 5: Prague to Vienna
13 May
I’m ready early so I can use the last 15 minutes’ validity of yesterday’s 24-hour ticket to get to the station, which is handy since I only have tuppence ha’penny left in Czech currency.
Continue readingDay 4: Monday in Prague
12 May
I spent most of yesterday being too warm and carrying my jacket, so naturally today I went out in shorts and a sleeveless top, no jacket, and spent most of the day being too cold. It was lovely when I was in the sun, though, and I must have fairly stoked up my vitamin D.
Continue readingDay 3: Sunday in Prague
11 May
Bad dreams bordering on nightmares (the whole of Sussex was destroyed when an earthquake set off a nuclear accident) but awoke well rested nonetheless.
Continue readingDay 2: Cologne to Prague
10 May
Very weird dreams that I won’t bore you with, but the shower did indeed work. Breakfast had a wide variety of foods, but no bowls for the cereal, so that was a bit of a challenge. I expect they only put cereal there for the foreigners, anyway, and there weren’t many of those. It’s a big conference-type hotel, so it was all Germans, or at least German speakers.
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