Realistic greetings cards
3 JunDo you ever feel that greetings cards are a bit over the top? All that hyperbole: best dad, greatest mum, best day ever etc. How about if there were more realistic cards to express your feelings? Read on..
Continue readingDay 13: Brussels to Sheffield
21 May
What a relief to get out of Brussels! I walked out my smelly hotel, past all the sex shops and the sanitation workers cleaning the streets of the previous night’s litter, and went to Hotel Mozart for the free breakfast I had been promised.
Continue readingDay 12: Innsbruck to Brussels
20 May
I had intended to get up at 7.10, but the nearby church thought I should get up at 7 to be on the safe side. I think its bell chimed 40 times. I expect it was to call people to early mass, but it worked very effectively as an alarm clock.
Continue readingDay 11: Budapest to Innsbruck
19 May
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.
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