We schedule to go to Sighishoara on the train at about 11:45am so I do some reading and wash some clothes; they'll dry in 5 minutes in this heat. We all go to get the train and Stef and Simon get accosted by an old German man at the train station for sitting where he wants to walk. Just as the train is arriving, so does Chris, the all-American action hero with two backpacks, sunglasses and a smile as wide as the Grand Canyon. We board the train, which is a 1...

I have an amazing sleep apart from waking myself and Simon up with a nightmare. In the dream I am in a dungeon trying to escape being killed by a king and I am lying on a stone plinth. To my left is the small space I crawled through into the dungeon and a shaft of light coming through it, one of the king's knights crawls through to get me and lying on my back I make 'mummy' noises to scare him away. I also try to lift my hands and arms but fail. This would ...

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Laszlo has told us that today we will be bird watching, but after breakfast we had to a local kindergarten to watch him give a presentation about environmental conservation to about 40 children, who all watch the pictures of wildlife and listen to Laszlo very attentively. It's great seeing Laszlo in action and he laughs along with the kids in Hungarian which obviously we cannot understand. We admire some of the arts and crafts the children have done before ha...

A full day's work this one; breakfast at 8:30 and then straight back to the butterfly house to continue our digging. Having had a good 10 hours sleep I feel ready for a hard day's graft BTCV style and get properly stuck into levelling the soil once again for the path inside the butterfly house, despite some initial confusion and a smattering of painting. Simon, Kate and Stef see a swallow tail butterfly and take photos and I tuck in to an 11:00 beer with my shi...