"Man, they all look like porn stars" "I think they are all porn stars..."

At least somewhere in Europe knows how to treat a hockey game. Prague had all the bars open allll night long to watch the Cup final. Very much worth the stupid amount of traveling I had to take from Greece to get there. The team I was quasi hoping for won and I got to smash cheap Czech beer until sunrise so I really cant complain.

Prague in itself was a super cool city too. As in, it was cold and rained the entire time I was there. But actually, it was one of the better cities Ive ever been to. I don't know why, but I always feel like European cities should be bigger until I actually go there. Weird. Oh well, place was good, the people I met were good, the beer was cheap and there was interesting things to do. Prague, you are a winner.

After Prague, I made tracks to Vienna for some fine art, Habsburg lore and more cheap beer. Now, I say a lot of stupid things, especially when I'm drinking, but I may have said the most stupid thing of my life here. After the Hofsburg, we toured the old Jewish part of town (presumably with a large contingent of Jewish people). It was here that I so astutely noticed that the tour guide was always saying that the Jewish people used to come here or at one time lived there etc. Everything in past tense. Well, jumping on the opportunity to ask a good question, I thought I should ask, well where did all the Jewish people go. As soon as I said that, I knew why. The group stopped with their mouths open. It even seemed like traffic stopped to look at my idiocy. Oh yes, The Holocaust. Whoops. I spent the rest of the day pretending to be half retarded to save some face. Even for someone half retarded, it was barely excusable.

I sit here in Budapest right now. Nice to be back to hot weather. This place is quite the party city where as Vienna and Prague were both relaxed, sit in a bar and drink types of places. I don't think Ive slept since Ive been here, although I'm not quite sure. When I first arrived, I was bunked up with 3 people from Aylmer )right across from Ottawa. So they brought me into their little crew. We went outside to see Castle Hill but saw someone on the side of the road trying to change the tire to his ritzy looking car. Being 3 good Canadian guys and having a Canadian girl to watch, we decided to help. Tire changed and the guy invites us to a party that night and tells us to bring our swimsuits. We decide to humour him, crash the party, steal a bunch of booze and take off....as recompense for the job well done, of course. So we get to this guys party and its being held in a bar that has a turkish bath (which is apparently all the rage around here). The party consists pretty much of us looking out of place, stately looking older rich guys and scantily clad women. Our choices of venue were the smokey bar, the baths, the 100C sauna or the cold water room. Maybe I have no class, but I don't really know what to do in an environment like that. Anyway, my friend Remi looks at the rest of us and says, Man, all those girls look like porn stars. In my head, I'm thinkin, yes, they absolutely are porn stars. Now, I find Hungarian women all have this innate 'we're going to bed now' look to them, but this was a little exaggerated. I'm thinking back to reading about Budapest and how its a world center for pornography and the sex trade and its all coming together for me. Luckily(?), we had a girl with us that was massively uncomfortable being around a group of well endowed beautiful women being leered at by older men so we took off before anything too untoward went down. I will hopefully be starring in a movie of my own shortly though.

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