I spent two nights in Wein in a fab hotelly hostel. The weather was pretty grim though unfortunately. I wandered around the historic centre, theres tonnes to see. But unfortunately the heap of museums are quite expensive for a budget traveller (and to be honest, i wasnt that fussed!) Thus I decided to spend my valuable euro on a trip to the opera instead. So last night I went to the all impressive Vienna operahaus and spent 4euro on a classy standing ticket aka ...

Feel a bit like a useless tourist, having learnt minimal Hungarian, which is now redundant here in Slovakia where they speak Slovak! Nonetheless, we*re getting by (sorry no apostrophe!). I did my first interrailing this morning with my American buddies and we all set off out of cloudy Budapest to Bratislava where the weather is a gorgeous 25oC. It has a small historic centre and a heap of communist tenements across the river. We strolled around, soaking up the s...

Arriving in Budapest was exciting, warmer than Edinburgh and quite foreign! The hostel was in suburbia, and the train into the town was a harry-potter-styley made-in-Poland big steel carriaged train. The hostel was essentially a flat, which was great coz I immediately got chatting away. Then yesterday I set out for an adventure with a fellow hostel buddy. (He seemed quite taken aback when someone tried to sell him an iphone/ pair of socks!) Unfortunately museu...