So, turns out that the further west you go in Europe, the stingier hostels get with their internet and you end up having to type a whole blog on a kindle. Nightmare. The story leaves off in Belgrade. It was raining again, so we did the sensible thing and went to see some Matt Damon at the cinema before catching our second night train. This time we had out own cabin but the seats were super ungodly, even so wepowered through left our luggage at Budapest station and jumped on the 7 am train to a place called eger.
We got our fill of culture in the morning at a castle which was more like a fortress. Laura and Lizzie loved the art gallery, me and sally were more dubious! She however loved the history section, I preferred the wine tasting in the afternoon. Half an hour walk from the station was the valley of the nice women or something like that and there is this super cute semi circle of 40 or so Mini wine cellars. You taste a couple and then the tense moment comes when you have to commit to buying a full glass- a big commitment when you consider that each glass is 60p!!
Feeling slightly tipsy we transport jogged it back to the station and headed to Budapest for the second time that day. We had booked into a place called instant groove party hostel, and had high expectations. They were not disappointed. Budapest is the place to be at a weekend and we made the most of it. Turns out, the hostel is the second floor of this ginormous club, absolute win when you can walk through security, skip the queue, bottle of vodka in hand to head to the common room. It also explains why lizzie found herself in flip flops three sizes too big toothbrush in bra and glass of water in hand at half four in the morning because I heard daft punk through my pillowcase and decided that sleep could wait a little . Longer.
Laura and sally bailed early the first night but brought it back the second night when they gave up on the reggae room at half five. The club was like a maze! Literally every genre you can think of had its own room, we even found a foosball table, a napping area and a disco pig hanging from the ceiling. It's a wonder we ever made it out the hostel building the whole weekend but we also managed to check out some cool ruins bars and of course the sights of Budapest. Somehow we even managed to fit in a circus with actual elephants, tigers, and parrot that clearly did not do what had been rehearsed.
After three nights, we were all knackered but had all pretty much decided that Budapest was deffo way up there in terms of places we have visited so far... sadly we had to leave as we feared the disco pig could strand us there forever!
Next stop Austria- vienna actually! Well the prices were a shock for one thing! No monies for food and wine anymore! Nightmare. First I impressions of vienna- how suave are the people- men especially. We defs looked worse than the tramps wandering round in anorak s and flip flops wristbands from the weekend hanging off arms and spotty face galore from too much pizza and vodka. Due to ridiculous prices we had to leave after one night,but we did manage a birthday party for lizzie including salmon and potatoes- shame we left the potatoes at the till... oh and cake... oh wait there was no oven at the hostel. And how can I forget the wine... and the lack of corkscrew. All in all a successful evening.
Since vienna we have been loving life in Austria but are heading tomorrow to..... Venice! Fingers crossed for more internet access... doubtful as we are camping to save money!
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