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Skipping ahead with this one but i thought i could write a journal entry that let all those know what the lone soldier Joe was up to and do Hungary in one fail swoop.
We arrived as five at Budapest international train staion, swiftly and surprisingly successfully moved towards our hostel. I could feel hearts sink as we approached. The pressure was on my back to provide with a good hostel seeing as i booked it in Prague. It looked from the outside to be some kind of run down foster home or something, and hope weren't hugely increased when we walked in to find the hells angel's gang leader sitting at the bar playing kiss music.
But as we found out soon enough this was exactly the place to be. Something i found out 8 days later when checking out.
It was the easiest place to stay, without having to move, 24 hour bar, pool table, table football, pizza delivery, laundry facilities and enough people to have a party every night.
Having said that, after travelling that day and myself having had no sleep whatsoever, we ordered pizza in and had a few quite beers and a few games of pool.
With nick adament that we were to leave the hostel by 9 30 the next morning we were all shunned out of bed the next morning to head off to the thermal baths that BUdapest is so famous for. After 3 hours of nick and james deciding what to do with their lives we headed off to the closest spa.
It was f***ing brilliant. We started off with a dip into one of the outdoor hot swimming pools, easing into the day after a huge lunch (apart from Ben who got murked as usual).
From there we hit the indoor plunge pools from intense heat to freezing cold. Nick lead the way with telling us we all HAD to stay in the hot pool for a certain time limit, then go under for thirty seconds before running to the ice pool.
Despite nicks efforts, when a physical group endurance test comes about there is no one else but mark to take it away. One of us couldnt even enter the sauna while the other three of us could only take a couple of minutes, while mark must have tensed through any barriers and exited moments before passing out limit. (The sauna was labelled 60-80 celcius.
The rest of the day was spent like small children fighting each other in the whirlpool, bring back water palace. We ended up pissing everyone in there off bar one man who took a strong fondness to mark. MARK GOT MURKED!
We headed back to the hostel after a short sleep in the sun and a couple of rounds of beer. What more could you ask for....well maybe a bit of energy to go out in Budapest with.
We, or should i say the boys gave it their best shot and we made it to one club, not quite inside but to the beer garden at least. With Ben ordering a half and James pushing away his first pint for a water and a place to rest his head things werent looking good. We all got murked on the way home by the cab driver charging double, which is a standard for tourists in Buda.
The boys went straight for bed whike i headed out with some irish boys to exactly the club i had just come from. We went on to an open air club across the river, which was differnt but a bit dissapointing.
Back at the hostel MOPER went on the rampage, bombing the s*** out of it. MGH...joining GW and ATG.
The next morning was a sad farewell to two close travelling folk, otherwise known as gypsies, Nick-olas and Jim-othy. Hence the photo of me in a lovely pair of underwear.
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