Thursday 19 August 2010

Hungry Romans.

aah... I'm getting annoyed at myself now. I'm not keeping up with this blog at all. But anyway, what happened after Belgrade? We went on to Budapest, via Romania (we had to clean the car due to the laws against dirty cars), and into Hungary!

Budapest wasn't so bad to go around. Our hostel was just outside the city, but we had to find the tram. And the stops were difficult, because we knew no word of Hungarian. It was also difficult to explain why we didn't have any tickets for the underground. We had no coins. There was no official around for us to buy tickets from, and so we lost 20 Euros (or the equivalent) each! But anyway, Budapest is a great city. Big, though... or maybe we just thought that from all the walking throughout the day! haha! Anyway... another interesting thing happened.

Outside the Parliament building, there is a big square (complete with the usual group of demonstrators), and at the edge of this square, there are three wooden crosses. They were separated from the square by a low chain fence thing. But anyway, no matter how careful I was trying to be not to trip over this chain, I tripped over! And to break my fall, I went to lean on one of these crosses and tilting it over. Luckily, it didn't fall and it was light enough to put back right again!

hm... what else happened? Nothing special, I guess. We just went all over the place! The next day, we went to Lake Balaton on the way to Bratislava. It is such an amazing lake. Massive, too! erm... I can't think of what to sat about it, really... but here are some photos, from Romania, Budapest and Balaton, and one out towards Bratislava. There is about 20 of them...