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Say it slowly tour Day 27: Budapest with a vengeance
I’m still in Budapest, will train to Sarajevo tomorrow. The weather is fairly sunny, a littlle fuzzy cloud cover, the obligatory polution haze, and I’m going to do my absolute best to enjoy today, I’m not going to let anything stop me. Not even my tummy trying for a repeat of Krakow. I wish I could blame it on last night’s feast ala ordinaire, but given the timing suspect it was someting I ate and enjoyed immensely. It’s a cruel world sometimes. So the plan is to head towards north Pest, check out St Stephen’s kirk, find some fine food, do some souvenir shopping (and buy a couple of books…
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Say it slowly tour Day 26: Sunshine on Pest / thoughts on easy and hard travel / Buda, Pest, and all that
Today the sun shines, and I might be able to see more of this place. I’m still pondering where there is any point to staying an extra day — I would like to see more of the place, but am not overly keen my my current digs. Will ponder some more. The Marco Polo Hostel is well promoted, and a member of Hostels International. It’s also a bit like a MacHostel, giving the basics but not much else. I realise that hostels are, by their very nature, the very very low end of the market. But if I look at the Birmingham backpackers, there were private shower cubicles with room…
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Say it slowly tour Day 25: Postcard from Budapest
If Mick Thomas is right, and “there’s no point writing postcards on your bad days”, this is a pretty pointless entry. Last night’s train ride was pretty ordinary. Second class carriages slept six, two rows of bunks three high, in a space a little smaller than the average bathroom. I wasn’t expecting the hilton on rails, but in a space that size, I’d hope the airconditioning worked. It didn’t, I tried to make it work, even got the otherwise underworked conductor guy to have a go. Nope. You’d think that the steamed up windows would give someone a clue? Nope. I managed eventually to prise the window open a little,…
