Blogs from Central Hungary, Hungary, Europe - page 116

yesterday morning we got a slow start since we both had to ˝beautify˝ourselves for an afternoon at the thermal baths. breakfast was my amazing honey yogurt with bits of oat and then bread with my ham cream cheese. LOL. we also caught a glimpse of our new apartment-mates, these two girls about our age from presumably the UK. the first thing on the day's agenda was the West End Shopping Center, eastern europe's largest shopping mall. btw this keyboard is all switched around so pardon any horrendous spelling errors. kasia needed a bathing suite and i decided that i hated mine so we both HAD to buy new ones. i ended up getting the first one i saw at quicksilver but for whatever reason if you're a girl and looking for a non-whorish bathing suite, you're ... read more

our last full day in Prague was spent basically wandering around the city...we had a rather late start and journaled and had some breakfast in the lounge before finally heading out. first we had to do some errands, the primary one being laundry. we walked over to traveller's hostel down the street and dropped off our laundry, quasi-pretending we were staying there. they didn't ask any questions, so that was easy. we stopped back to pick up our forgotten passports, kasia got pizza and myself a drink from albert's, and then we headed to the train station to purchase our tickets to hungary. probably our favorite part of the morning's journey was seeing an old man's scrotum hanging out of his shorts on the metro. dobry den, indeed! once our "business" was done with, we took ... read more

We are officially done with the concert tour and are in Budapest. This morning we are headed to Poland to start summer teams. Summer teams are a short term missions program for youth. We will be the beautiful city of Krakow. I will update more later when I have more time. Oh and I have finally booked my flight home..... I will arrive in Austin on 8/22 at 1:30 pm. I am looking forward to seeing everyone again! ... read more

Sorry for the travelblog delay, but 1) it's difficult to even find Internet cafes in these countries and 2) the cheap side in me emerges and I keep spending all of my money responding to e-mails rather than writing the blog. I hate to do this to those of you who waste away their days sitting and praying that I will post a new blog (HA!), but I think I'm going to wait until I get back to Canada to write the blogs for my trips to Hungary, Austria, Slovakia (the country I'm currently in), Poland (next), and Czech Republic (last stop). I will also have photos to add then! ... read more

We take a bus to Budapest & arrive around two. Our accomadation got screwed up but we find a place on our 2nd attempt. Budapest is split in two by a river, Buda & Pest. We stay on the Pest side. It is not quite what we had imagined & seems very similar to the countries we have already been to. This is a shame because we wanted to see it before it commercialised too much. Apparently Hungary is know as the Paris of the East & it is not hard to see why. We spent three lazy nights in Budapest, with the highlights being our walks around the city, the markets (for Di !) & the thermal baths. It is a big place & hard to see on foot, but we gave it a good ... read more