so my last few days in budapest were lovely...turned out the trains werent on strike, but i still stayed an extra day anyways...was staying at an awesome hostel (called thumbs up, how could it not be amazing?) and met some cool people. met an aussie girl and we spent a day together eating lots of yummy food and spending two hours trying to find a cave...even the information dude didnt know where it was. finally found it and it looked super lame so we didnt go in. went to the opera together (xerxes by handel) but it was surprise surprise in hungarian and had this really weird modernized vibe to it that just didnt work...we couldnt figure out the storyline as there were planes and cars and semi 'arab' slash hip hop dancing involved...but crazily enough the set had an apartment building with persian writing all over it....said something about love and shiraz and hafez and then on another side said iran on it...I was pretty surprised. we left at intermission and grabbed a yummy chocolate brownie dessert instead and didnt look back:) someone of my true kind.
won a beer off gabe the hostel owner as he said it was gonna rain, and i bet him that it wont. got it at 6 am this morning as i was on my way to vienna...anyone want some hungarian beer?? took a very quick and comfy train ride to vienna and spent the entire day roaming the streets. today is a bank holiday in europe and they had all these festivities going on the streets. started to rain a bit so I ran into the opera house just as fidelio was about to start...4€ for standing room ticket...boy was it a painful and hot few hours...was all in german so again had no idea what was going on...just read the bio on wiki and was surprised by the storyline...hehe...was like, woa that happened?! but I did understand some of the german stuff andits weird how some of my german from high school has come back a bit. albeit only a bit.
went to landtmans famous cafe and had a coffee and apple strudel this evening which was lovely...cant wait to try out some more lovely coffee places around town.
on a side note im in the internet cafe right by my hostel and the two guys right next to me got into a fight displaying their masculinity by an interesting display of english swear words...ended in the white german dude calling the arab a skinhead...interesting. for a sec i thought it was gonna escalate into a physical fight and i was getting ready to jump out of the way but thankfully it died down rather quick.
anyhoo, heres to more wunderbar coffees tomorrow...cheerio.
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