#traindrama

Dear Future Isa,

…dary.

That reminds me, today’s breakfast was chocolate and cheese. You got it from Spar, which is oddly more popular in Europe than in England. It’s very odd to see shops like that (and Tesco) when you’re away from home, because they’re like a weird reality check. You sometimes have to do a double take to remind yourself where you are, like: “Yes this is a shop I know. But no, it’s not THE shop I know.”

Heh, it’s weird.

Anyway, I’ll continue running through the odd chain of events that made up today. After your non-traditional but very delicious breakfast, you stayed on the green by the Vienna metro station for a couple of hours, chatting and doing Sudoku. There were quite a few bugs around, but that might’ve just been because they thought you were a flower (you were wearing yellow and you smell.)

OH THAT REMINDS ME. I forgot to talk about the biggest disappointment of the trip so far, which occurred yesterday. Basically, after trying Apple Strudel you decided you needed so much more of it in your life and in your stomach, so as part of dinner yesterday you bought a new chocolate flavoured one. It looked sooooo good. You got back to the hostel and you and Rosie both tore off large-ish chunks to devour BUT THEN you realised with horror that what you were tasting was not chocolate but something else.

(It actually wasn’t that bad, it was poppyseed and honey. You quite liked it really. Rosie did not. There were probably actual tears.)

BUT ANYWAY.

Later on, you got on the metro and then got on the train to Budapest. *cue George Ezra*

The train journey was probably the best so far. It was really quiet, and you were sat opposite two girls about your own age, who were doing a similar kind of trip to yours, so even though you didn’t talk that much, it was still a comfort. You watched Into The Woods with Rosie, which was great, and you’re not just saying that because of Anna Kendrick, although her presence was most definitely a contributing factor.

As you approached Budapest, the blistering heat turned into a dramatic dark sky which you travelled towards, and then into. The clouds above you were so dark they were most black, and once the rain started, it did not want to stop. For the last half hour or so of the journey, there were flashes of lightning every twenty seconds or so, which were pretty much the most impressive you’ve ever seen. As you got off the train, the storm got stronger and stronger, which was really exciting considering all you’ve seen for the past two weeks is sunshine (except for some brief drizzle in Amsterdam.) It rained pretty much nonstop for the rest of the day, but you didn’t mind because Hungary seems to be beautiful regardless of the weather.

After some faffing around with trying to book the night train (unsuccessfully), and hunting for a loo (successfully, although it’s weird paying 130 of a currency in order to pee,) you got to the hostel.

Yeah, there are quite a few forints to the pound, and it messes with your head a little bit.

This hostel’s a lot smaller than all the others, and therefore more social. You quite like it here so far :)

Tonight, you went and ate burgers at the restaurant next door and then made a plan - you’d been told you could only book the aforementioned night train from the station it leaves from, which is on the other side of the city. Since you have to reserve seats/beds, you decided the sooner you got it sorted, the better, so you headed over to the station.

The phrase “headed over” seems so casual in comparison to what actually happened. You took a tram, then a metro, then rode THE WHOLE LENGTH of another metro line to get there, only to be told you just need to book on the night. Basically, an hours’ travelling for not much :’) but oh well, you guys laughed a lot during this expedition, especially at the suddenly hilarious station names - “Janos Pal Papa,” anyone?

Okay this got long.

(Like the dicks at the Freud Museum)

SORRY FOR ALL THE CAPITALS

As I went into the train cart, I dreamt of my significant other grabbing him back and giving him a killer glare to back the fuck off.