i live a tough life
well i just realized that i have done a pretty poor job of keeping this thing updated, and that i dont write down half the stuff that i intend to, so for that i apologize to you all. there are a few of you with a substantial investment in this trip and im sure you would like to know where all that money is being funneled.Budapest on sunday night was an absolutel blast, we saw the hungarian national orchestra playing in a huge open air park, and then i went to this massive club on the river with a bunch of friends. on the way home (about 4am) we saw a drunk idiot dive into the very fast moving and flooded danube river. i cannot confirm the outcome of this swim, but we did notify the closest cops for a rescue\recovery mission. somehow i got up relatively early on saturday morning, and i did the free walking tour of the city with my canadian buddies. i cant describe how much i love budapest, and im still bitter about only spending 3 nights there. after the tour i went through the caves and the labyrinth underneath the castle. when i went in, it was a beautiful day, and i emerged a few hours later into a rainstorm, without my rain jacket. so this consumed all of my day and by the time i had walked in the rain for 30 minutes i was pissed, so i determined that i needed another trip to the hungarian bathes followed immediately by a massage. i went out with some suisse last night to morrisons opera (which is not an opera at all, its a kareoke bar), and then got up at 6 this morning to hop on the train to Munich.
i was quite sad to leave the east, especially once i got to Munich and remembered how bad you get raped with the exchange in the euro zone. i have now changed currencies 11 times, so it was already hard to take any of the money seriously, but the hungarian forint was by far the most ridiculous and worthless. the exchange is a little over 200 forint to 1 USD, so it was really like using monopoly money the whole time. i took a sweet picture of myself rolling with about 50,000 forint the other day.
i got to Munich early this afternoon, and i remembered that i really liked Munich, but i couldnt remember why, but then as i was reading my book at the Englishgarten, i remembered why. i was befriended by 3 really old bavarian guys, who happened to really like the same beer i was drinking. this was why i liked Munich so much. so through various hand signals, broken english, and rounds of "proast" (german for cheers), i had another awesome day in Bavaria. i love this place. i wandered around after this, looking for my favorite thing in Germany, the guys who surf in the river in the middle of Munich. i had some cool videos of them from a few years ago, but i am still fascinated by these guys. i spent a couple hours on the river bank, and finally called it a day when the rain started about 8. i will no longer be complaining about the weather, as i think my complaints are the reason that i get rained on every day. i am getting up early to head to Interlaken tomorrow, and then i am skydiving on thursday. im pumped
posted by Graham Potter @ 3:15:00 PM
