Day 37 - Vienna to Budapest

We got up at 9ish and rushed down to the station to catch the 10:03am train to Budapest. I slept most of the way except for being poked by the Hungarian border patrol about halfway there. We got to Budapest around 1pm and found a map and walked down to our hostel that Rob had reserved for us; the Marco Polo hostel.

Its an alrite place, clean and everything, but not really an ideal place for meeting people because the bunks are completely separated from each other by half walls and there's no common room, so meeting other people is tough. We're going to try to get our money back tomorrow morning and switch to another place closer to the river.

So anyways, we dropped our shit off, then took off walking for the rest of the day. We were trying to find an internet place at some point, but EVERYTHING was closed. We thought it was just because it was Sunday, but apparently today, Oct 23rd was the day that Hungary became completely sovereign from the Soviet Union back in 1953, so its a national holiday and everything was closed (again, my history may be off; take a course if you wanna learn history). We pretty much just wandered around everywhere on this side of the river, then came back to the hostel and dozed for awhile, then headed back out in the evening and crossed the one bridge, wandered abit, then came back across the other bridge adn back to home to bed early. The only eventful thing that happened today was that Rob stepped straight onto, and almost slipped and fell (very close) into a HUGE pile of dog shit. Other than that, just another day of sightseeing.