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Im sitting in an internet cafe in old town Bratislava, taking shelter from the icy wind and bizarre weather. I arrived today to a weird haily rain which was the perfect weather for my very comical journey to the hostel. I was following instructions Id printed from the hostel website which had two bullet points on how to get to the hostel. I thought they were two steps to the instruction, but turns out they were two different ways to get there and I ended up making it all the way to the hostel, to walk straight past it and jump on a bus back to where Id started... fortunatly a kindly bus driver took pity on me and helped me back to the hostel.
Im now travelling on my own for a few days as Anna has gone back to Berlin. But I should be meeting up with Jascha sometime this week, hopefully his sense of direction is better than mine...
Anyway, lots to tell since I last wrote. My evil cold has stuck around with a fairly persistent veracity and has seen me coughing up a lung for the past week. But I think my body has finally decided it cant possibly keep up the mucus factory Ive become and is starting to get better - lovely I know. So we made our way to Vienna for 24 hours and had a great time. Wed organised to couch surft with a guys who turned out to be an awesome Austrain guy, Fabian, who lives along but doesnt like an empty house so hes had had someone -or many- on his couch every day for the past year and a half. Hes had up to 18 couch surfers at one time and over 200 all together!
And we also met up with Soren, Jaschas Austrain friend who hes been travelling with. Soren showed us around town and gave me some lowdown on what Jash has been up to over the past year... Vienna was really beatiful with lots to see so we didnt really get to see much of it, but had fun anyway. And ate a massive schnitzel. We were in Austria afterall.
After Vienna we jumped on a train to Budapest and arrived late at night. We took an after dark stroll around town which was a good idea as the next day was rainy and windy weather. So we decided that if were getting wet anyway, wed go to the baths. The bathhouse was amazing! Its set in a palace type setting and you just float around in the thermal spring water. There are all different temperatures, and then steamrooms and saunas too. Very regal. But the weirdest thing of all was walking down the corridor and running into Justine who I used to dive with!! What a small small world. Also along the same corridor we accidently went into the male changing areas and had some very unhappy hungarians shoo us away.
We were in Budapest a few nights and stayed at another couch surfters place, Lina who is a Slavak girl recently moved to Budapest. She took us out a few nights to some very cool places - think Budapest would be awesome to visit in Spring where there is more going on.
Oh, and we went caving!! We joined up with a group which gets led into a cave network underneath Budapest. We crawled through some very tiny spaces and slide down paths. Was really cool but our guide didnt really speak much English and when one guy got stuck in a tiny hole and started to panic she just stood there watching as we all tried to talk him out of the hole - Aimee it seems all throughout my travels people are getting stuck in holes!!
Okay, well this is turning into a massive essay - next time Ill try not leave it so long before writing stuff so there isnt such a backlog. And Ill try an get some photos up soon too....
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