I don't know what city this is a picture of, but I am nowhere near it or anything that bears a remote resemblance to it. I'm in Bucharest, capital of Romania and in many ways the least pleasant part of it. Brasov and the surrounding country was all incredibly beautiful- Bucharest is not. Rather, it resembles a standard European city that's been hit with something heavy. There's an interesting palace built by a fairly uninteresting meglo...

And these two pictures are of a castle in Sussex and Cornwool, respectivly. Becuase while niether of these areexactly in Romania, they're both sort of Castle-y, so that's all right then. Have arrived at the hostel fairly easily following a fairly difficult night train journey. I really, really hope that I don't have to do that again. The conductors were not nice people. Until I gave them money. Brasov is a fairly beatiful town, unusual in i...

Am in Budapest, City of thermal baths and presumably some other things. The hostel I'm staying in (Backpacker's Guesthouse) is a pretty nice place, although it was virtually empty for the first two days I was here. Fortunately, business is picking up again, and there are plenty of english speaking Erasmus Transfer Students hanging around the city anyway. My continuous nagging sense of guilt about not having learned any of the local language...

Newcastle again.   I'm back in krakow for the night, becuase while my Zakopane hostel was in a wonderful out of the way position in the middle of nowhere, the obvious down side was that not a great deal of international express trains pass through the middle of nowhere.    Hey, I've just realised that this thing won't let me do paragraphs properly. It insists on leaving a space between lines, which should only be done dur...

Not actually a picutre fomr here, but accurate insofar as there are mountains. There are lots of moutains here.