Saturday, October 17, 2009

are we in europe or australia??

sorry we havent written in a while we have been quite busy. prague was really beautiful although i was disappointed in the castle. we only got to see a few rooms and all they would have was like a desk nothing to impressive inside. the castle was HUGE though. we also went to see the dracula musical which was awesome i did pretty well understanding what was going on even though it was in czech (brian not so much). we also saw a church that had over 40,000 skeletons inside they used the bones to make decorations such as a chandelier and ornaments for the wall. i didnt see much else than that in prague brian will have to write on that. at our last hostel and the one we are in now in poland there have been so many australians i really feel as if we are in australia. they are good people to be around though and sure know how to drink. i did a pub crawl in prague (brian was sick) and we didnt get home from the bars until 730 am and they proceeded to drink until 1 in the afternoon. poland was alright really cold though and for some reason i felt like i needed to wear flip flops everywhere (no idea how im not sick) and it was raining and below 40 degrees. we did go to auschwitz which was very interesting and mind boggling. we were only there for 2 days so brian did the walking tour but i was not up for it and i just slept all day so not much to say about the sites and i have no pictures from there because i lost my camera : (.
now im in budapest and brian is in vienna. we thought it would be a good idea to travel alone for a little bit to become more independent and just get away from each other. yesterday i saw the museum of terror and the castle. the museum was awesome i never realized how brutal the hungarians had it after world war II. it was actually similar to the concentration camp with the prison cells and the tortue methods they used. the exchange rate here is insane!!! one euro is 270 hungarian flt. which is about ahhh a lot of dollars ( i never exchange things back to dollars anymore). so i got dinner last night and it was 2200 flt which was about 8 euros! we were complaining about a 360 plt shot which was only about a euro and a half it was really funny actually. i am going to the baths tomorrow which should be AMAZING especially since tonight is the BIG night in budapest? and i believe BRATISLAVA the next day?
sorry for the long ramblings im trying to talk and type as well which is not really efficient. i have def learned that eastern europe is more about the partying than actual sightseeing
i will have brian post something about austria (bug him on facebook for it!)

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