Day 81

Last evening in Prague was great. We went to the main square in the old town to come across a big festival happening. With blues music playing, food stands, and people everywhere. Including a large number of drunk bums. When we first entered we noticed two of them on the ground rolling around fighting. These two bums turned out to be great entertainment for Jessica and myself and after about an hour watching them I promised Jessica I would include them in my blog.

After a quick run in with the cops they stopped and sat down on near by bench and this is where we noticed the older guy was bleeding pretty badly from his head. His girlfriend and even the guy he just fought (we will call the younger guy red pants since that was his only piece of clothing he was wearing) were helping him with some very bad first aid skills. They continued to help him and would occasionally break into small little arguments. We honestly could not stop watching them, and we were not the only ones wasting time to see them! A few other benches were laughing every time we would. Funny to see how at first two drunks were fighting and then 10 minutes later red pants his holding a towel on the face he just cut. The last bit of the show was red pants running over to help another homeless guy with his bag! This old man was struggling to take off his backpack so he literally runs over and helps him take it off and places it on the bench for him. Turns out he is sort of a gentleman? At that moment the laughs from the benches grew and I think he started to notice people were watching him. Whatever the case... if you are traveling on a budget, travel tip in Prague is watching the bums in Old Town Square!!

Once we finished up with Prague we took a bus to Budapest in Hungary. Ended up being less than 24 hours in the city but we still got to see a lot of it. We arrived that evening around 5 pm, found a place to stay for the night from this really sweet Hungarian lady, then walked around town. The parliament building is probably the nicest one I have seen. Almost every street has flowers or gardens, the locals are welcoming and the money is really annoying to convert. I went to the cash point to take out some money and I got a 10 000 bill. Really annoying to find out that 10 000 huff is around 40 Canadian? I knew the currency was poor, but not to that extent! Need to start doing my research BEFORE I enter the country.

We boarded a bus this afternoon for Vienna. I got yelled by the guy on the bus because of Jessica! She tried to lean her seat back when the handle fell off, so she just placed it back on and changed seats. No one reacted. Of course when I notice my radio is not working and I moved seats the handle fell off again. Well this time someone noticed and got up. He came up and asked what the handle on the floor was, so I told him and then asked him to wait a second before I picked it up since my hands were full from moving my stuff to the new seat. Then he proceeds to ask if that's why I moved because I broke the seat (no - the radio was broken), and why did I not pick it up (I couldn't - my hands were full as I said before), and where the handle came from (I told him it was to move the seat back - you think he would know since he works on these buses daily)! Crazy man. Getting yelled at is bad enough never mind when it wasn't even my fault (Jessica!). I decided it would be best NOT to say anything back since he would probably kick me off the bus, so I clipped the handle back on the chair said sorry and sat back with my working radio, reclined seat and enjoyed the ride to Austria.

Which brings me to midnight in Vienna on the computer listening to a rainstorm just outside. The hostel here has an amazing view of the city. We are pretty high up looking down on all of Vienna, and with the lightening lighting up the sky it is really a sight to see.