Day 8 Budapest - 09 August 2009 Budapest

I wonder around Budapest with a group of 8 or 9 of us. John has a peg leg from a bug bite and buys himself a cane with a bell and a flask holder.

After lunch, Dave, Meg - also an Architecture graduate, spiky hair, 6’0”, so will probably get lots of looks when we get into Asia - and I go off to ‘Memento Park’, a reservoir of statues and replicas from the communist era. It is a long bus journey out of the Buda side, so we see the suburban commuter belt of the city. The first attraction upon entering the statue park is an old Trabant....

Day seven - 08 August 2009 to Budapest

John nursing his sore leg with a large beer

A driving day to the Budapest campsite: we get a free beer each on arrival, and I drink a few more and then go to bed. It is Belgian Sam’s birthday, and there is a party at the bottom bar of the campsite. I can hear repeating renditions of House of the Rising Sun with JC, our driver, leading with the mandolin. At about 4 am I am awoken by a 5 minute chorus of farts from a neighbouring tent, followed by another chorus of House of the Rising Sun.