I’m old. I’m fat. My bones ache. My soul is tired. It was a rough, sleepless night. Restless leg syndrome is a real thing. While I don’t think that’s necessarily exactly what happened last night (and what continues to be an issue as I type this), it is a descriptive explanation of what’s what. My […]
This whole trip to Hungary has felt like one big Moebius Strip. I even embraced that notion by returning to that restaurant I first ate dinner in this town. I’m sure I could’ve eventually found another decent if not spectacular place but at in each successive night here I struck out. Sadly tonight I tried […]
It’s going to be one of those days… Stubbed several of my toes on this AirBNB’s death bed last night. Fortunately they just have to go 42.195 km today. Banged my head several times on the attached soapdish affixed to the shower plumbing. Flooded the bathroom because the shower curtain strung on a makeshift rod […]
After 150 years of occupation by the Ottomans, after a series of events long after that, and after a bloody decisive battle, two cities divided by the Danube River, Pest on the East bank and Buda on the West, united in 1873. This new supercity was called Budapest. What follows here is a mélange. […]
If I really wanted to do something with this post, I’d start at the end and work my way backwards, Christopher Nolan style. But that’s not going to happen. But I will do a few time jumps… not because of artistic imperative but because I’m a pretty lousy and loose writer when it comes to […]
Simply put – Szimpla Kert is a tourist trap. It may be “authentic” in that it was apparently the first bar sprung from a ruined building. The idea was to make a cheap place to drink, thus transforming an abandoned space with minimal renovation other than to make it relatively safe and to decorate the […]
I’m having a bad day. Emotionally. Physically. Bio-rhythmically. Astrologically. Paranormally. Psychically. Entirely. Nothing seems to be going right. I was trying to troubleshoot a tech problem for my Mom back in Florida and I only seem to have made a “Dagwood attempting to fix the sink in Blondie” style mess of things. My phone doesn’t […]
“Yesterday” – Lennon/McCartney … though written by Paul Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday. Suddenly I’m not half the man I used to be. There’s a shadow hanging over me. Oh, yesterday came suddenly. Why she had to go, […]
It’s approximate 345 km from Zagreb to Budapest. Despite some horror stories about FlixBus online, I had a perfectly pleasant experience with their staff and service. The passengers on the other hand all reeked of last minute cigarettes huffed before boarding at each stop along the way I had gotten to the bus depot early, […]
7:03 AM – 8:26 AM Sigh. You’d think I would have checked the hours on Medvedgrad before setting my alarm last night. But, no, I was *sooooo* smart and *soooo* well organized thinking Medvedgrad was open on Tuesdays that I didn’t bother to check WHEN it opened on Tuesday. So this morning as I once […]