I spent the whole of tuesday roaming round vienna with only my book for company. It was a rather odd read about a sheep that kept crawling up inside of people and using them for its own political gains. It didnt make much sense but i polished it off in a day and it is handy to have a book with you when sat in places by yourself. I was sat on a park bench at one point and an old lady came and sat next to me. I read my book whilst she just sat there gazing into the distance. This happened for half an hour without a word between us. Maybe old people have so much time they dont have to be doing stuff. Either way as soon as we started talking she discovered i was english and then she moved to another bench. I guess there is still a lot of history in europe.
I wont spend too long on vienna. Its a place i regard highly and is the prettiest functioning city i have been in. However most of my interesting stories are unfortunately fuelled by alcohol and coffee was my liquid of choice in vienna. I did however stumble across a chain of classical toilets. It was quite an experience to listen to mars whilst taking a leak. It makes the whole procedure more epic. Maybe oneday i will build my own in Sheffield playing a medly of the human league, ABC, def leppard and pulp. The other mildly suprising thing in vienna was a protest march that went through town. Ive seen communists waving red flags and chanting in Koln, A facist rally in munich (it was a bit like footage from a hitler speech) and a march about jobs in vienna. Times are not great in europe as a whole it would seem.
Anyway im delighted to tell you that i arrived in Budapest last night. It was probably my most eventful day of hitching yet. Ill fill in that story at a later date. Im off for a swim in a bath stroke spa thingy that was built when everything was in black and white.
cheerios,
Richie (every australian calls me it for some reason) xx
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