Jynx

Yea if you didn't know there was a toxic spill in south east Budapest. Basically down the river. I was thinking. Well heavy metals should get caught in the filtration system, is there a good filtration system in Hungary, what about the radioactive particles. FUCK it i need coffee. We had this whole plan about going through serbia then bulgaria but as we are on the train to Beograde we look at our E rail pass and we arn't valid to go through them with just the global pass. All the other ones are fine. So we jump of the train expecting the next one that came would go the same way we came. It didn't we ended up in the boondocks of Budapest where we were kicked off the train because the train guy didn't believe us that our pass was valid for the train. Here we are in the middle of nowhere thinking well at least we didn't get thrown off when it was moving. I had all these thoughts run through my head about how i should land on my back even though it would probable fuck up my spine it would be alot better than being smoshed by my bag. We have all these scraps of paper with where we want to go written down and somehow we make it back. It's not the train station we wanted to go to but we can walk to it. We go to the good train station get our night train all booked and make our way back to the hostel to just hang out. The hostel was very strange the guys who worked there would just leave for a couple of hours at a time come back clean hang out for a bit then leave again. We whenever he left we raided the food cabinet for the crappy cereal we eat at breakfast. It had free coffee though. Budapest was a good place to walk, it was a very long walk to. But we saw it in like a day in a half. Apparently it has a really good bar scene but we just weren't interested at that point. But Were told that that is where all the pretty people hang out. Just walking around the street it's like who said Budapest had the most beautiful girls and where were they compared to me. So we finally get our train which is to romania now which is good that we came early because it's freezing. We had to get off at this random train station at like 6 30 and wait until nine o'clock till the next train to Sibiu would come. Right so Bran castle in Brasov is not Vlad the impaler's castle. Poenari castle near curtea de argos is the real one; it's just really hard to get there because they close a bunch of roads around winter. We actually found a hostel that's pretty cool that adds up to be ten Euros a night which is like YEAY we are staying two nights so we can figure shit out tomorrow and trek it the day after that. We had to change plans with the people we were staying with in greece to. It's pretty cold though. I mean my teeth aren't chattering and i'm not lying on a bed professing my last words but enough that we went to a second hand store and bought kind of awesome horrible coats for about 15 lei. Tomorrow we plan to find a Harry type sweater and maybe tights. I plan to not be cold and die of course i'll wear tights or long johns if i need to. But we probable won't stay in Romania alot. It's an incredible culture though and we met this girl on the train and she was from here and she was talking about the gypsies and i just sort of thought wow i should have been born into the gypsy culture i would really get along there. We balance each other out though. My bad luck and Shanon's mixed with our random luck. Like getting lost on the trains all day in budapest waking up just as we get to our stop in romania. We also can always find our way we barely ever take a map with us. We don't really look for the historical sights but just walk around for hours finding them. I am good with directions because i can always just sort of know which direction we need to head in and then shannon will see something and we are back home agian. It's a good thing. Romania is our baby, we just know it's going to be so fucking hard to get around, no one speaks english, it's cold, hostel's are like maybe two if that a town. But we will survive, and be warm in greece. Hell fucking yea i'm in romania and i'm going to see the real Dracula castle .