Day 21 - Friday 1st July

Weather - Fine, quite Warm - varied from around 30 to down about 20 with torrential rain, then sorta overcast.

After being rudely awakened by our hostile (Nai said "Hostel", but the Freudian slip still holds) neighbours coming home at 6am and driving l'autobus porcelaine, we packed up our stuff to leave. Of course, that sounds easy, but Cory was still feeling the after effects of his own little session last night. He slept from 5pm until morning, but some of those brews weighed in at 17% so his liver was still working overtime. That, combined with dehyration that also gummed up an eye meant he was having trouble turning his engine over.

We picked up the car from the 'elevator' and headed out from Prague towards Hungary. We decided to try to go via Bratislava in Slovakia, as (unfortunately) Cesky Krumlov would have taken us about 4hrs out of our way, and so we wouldn't have had time to enjoy it anyway. Bratislava has a very nice industrial district, as that is most of what we saw. We managed to get ourselves lost, but found the exit route and managed to see the very picturesque castle and river over our shoulder on the drive out. Almost made it all worth it... (almost).

Finding our wonderful guest house in Budapest (Buda) was comparatively easy, and once checked in we ditched the Astra and walked across the river via Gellert Hill, to get some food. At this stage Cory was almost comatose so he either needed some sleep, or some food. Some ice-cream, some more walking and some great goulash (or gulaç as we think they spelt it), Beef for Cory and Mushroom Gulaç for Nai. Nai's was the superior.