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Argh! The server crashed, and I lost my last two entries. Serves me right for holding them until I got a chance to do photos.

This is only a short note, because I haven't written for ages. I've been in Hungary, heading not just to Budapest, but also Eger with it's famous wines, and Szentendre, a city up the Danube. Next was the ukraine, and this was an experience I am unlikely to forget. Even doing nothing was tiring, as you had to still translate everything in your head, back i°nto latin letters. Then decide if you could or couldn't read it.

After that Slovakia was a dream, I could almost converse with people. Poland was fun, got to meet a lot of Polish people, and eat a lot of polish food.

Helsinki was wet and cold: on a day when winter-Sydney was 24, it was 14 in summer, in Helsinki. Curse the Arctic circle thing. and sunset is at 10.30pm.

Estonia is fantastic, I stayed up stupidly late talking about midsummer eve practices, and the distirbution of populations (ok, well, the various size of cities in Oz and Estonia).

And now I am in Riga. And really must go and see some of it, before the day's over.

My budgeting is going very well; in any non-euro country, I tend to spend very little. So I've decided to extend the end of my holiday a week, so I have more time in England.

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