Thursday, August 03, 2006

Terror!


Yesterday, determined to be more productive, a group of us headed off to the Terror Museum in Pest. Absolutely amazing museum. Sure they have an agenda to villify the Nazi and Stalin regimes, but it was laid out brillantly with lost of audio visual things to occupy easily bored minds. Some of the footage was pretty brutal though. You never would see this kind of stuff in Germany. (Did notice that they downplayed the involvement of the Hungary goverment though.) Still, definitely worth a visit.

After that Alon (who I actually met back in Genova), Rob, Elisa, and I headed off to find some "authentic Hungarian food" and find it we did! Holy deliciousness. I don't know what Guinea Foul is but damn is it good! After that we got right into the partying mood and spent the night hopping from place to place. Good times.

But the evening finished up with one of the most terrifying and surreal taxi rides of my life. After bartering hard for the price we squished ourselves clown car style into a wee cab and took off for the hostel. Unfortunately in our less that sober state must have been a bit annoying to the poor cabbie because I soon found myself in this situation: flying along at breakneck speed along side the black inky Danube river, not having a clue where we were, and listening to... I kid you not... the Hamster dance song played full volume. Truly terrifying. ;)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Vickie and I are back from marvelous tour of Chilcotin back roads. Hot sun, thunderstorms, muddy roads, deep canyons, funky B&Bs, road side lunches in the sagebrush. Stopped in Goldbridge for brief visit with Maggie and Wayne. Vickie and Hannah off to Virginia tomorrow and I get another week of doing what I please. Sounds like you're on quite the adventure. Got you "box" and CDs today. Great stuff. Love to see more pictures of your travel mates.

Anonymous said...

The idea of being crammed in a cab, with the Hamster Dance at full volume as your sound track, has caused me to splorfle tea all over my monitor. Yup, telling every I know about that now...

Just in case you wanted to know what you were eating:
Guinea Fowl
http://zigwen.free.fr/tof/afs/kruger2/guinea_fowl1_grand.jpg