Good day,
Spent the day benching, what is benching? It’s sitting on park benches in the sun and people / pigeon watching. Sometimes you see people who could best be described as pigeons as well, as absurd as that may sound.
Yesterday, met up with a friend and one of her friends. Roamed the streets until somehow we managed to find ourselves in a beauty salon and ended up hanging with the staff before others showed up and hit up several night clubs.
If given the option, would take Budapest over Prague, some great night life and it was only a Wednesday. Going to places with local people is very different then played out bars on pub crawls where the local people are probably sick of obnoxious tourists…
Warm day today, spent some time lying in the park, it was packed. Also at Deak For aka downtown they are building a pretty cool skate park, not sure why North America has so few yet so many restrictions on where people can skate, does not add up.
Tomorrow concludes 3.5 months in Europe. Leaving is bitter sweet but so are most things in life. Looking forward to Bangkok for the weekend then, as of now, plan on heading to Chiang Mai on a night train Sunday.
Can’t believe it has been 3.5 months and a lot of countries, lots of experiences and lots of fun. People say Europe is a good time and they are right, believe the hype, believe the hype.
Excited about getting an apartment, that was the original plan all along but somehow it turned into what it did, not sure how that happened, really. All started on Khao San Road with someone suggesting check the islands and the rest is history.
Hit up the Embassy today, should be no problem for the 60day tourist visa, we shall see what becomes of it. If it works out, it was brain dead easy to get and recommend doing it before you get there, once you do you will probably want to stay longer than 30 days, most people do.
Tonight, meeting a blogger friend, grabbing something to eat and well, pretty much saying goodbye to Europe. Hopefully I will return, that said, fortunate to have the chance to go in the first place…
Lots of people ask when returning to “the real world”? WTF?
Cordially,
P.S: I used to be a fat, wrote a book on how to lose 40lbs in 4 months. In the first 2 weeks of being in Thailand, I will release it, full money back guarantee and your wallet will get fatter while you get thinner, stay tuned.
Search Du Jour?: “Family Life is Boring” – Result.
Whoever is in a relationship with this searcher is pretty lucky…
Hope they cleared the history, ha.
Greetings,
Met up with a polygot friend of mine yesterday, he is an ambassador for couch surfing. The meeting was cool, cannot believe I never did couch surfing, I must be mad, clinically insane. Met the 182nd most traveled man in the world, 116 or 136 countries, INDEED! Go big or go home…
La de Dahhh De, I’d like to meet up with Slick Rick, Tiger Woods , Easy-E, Dougie-Fresh and Rock a party, drink lots of coke and maybe even some Bacardi.
Back to reality, you can get a 60 day tourist visa from the Budapest Thai Embassy. You need a bank statement showing you have $666.666, ticket and passport photos. Went today, empty handed, sh~t. It is HARD to find, it is nestled in the hills of Buda, really nice places up there.
I really hope you do not need an EXIT ticket… 60 day visa beats having to take a border run by plane. Some fly to Singapore, KL, whatever… Seems like a hassle and expense.
Told em I leave Friday, buddy said ok come back tomorrow, we will process in 1 day, also sick. With 60 day, I can get a crib, maybe even take weekend trips to Kanchanaburi to play golf, or just live there, who knows…
Also found some cheap flights to India. If one left Bangkok to Mumbai early October, would cost about $250us, supposedly India is mental.
Budapest is a very cool city, the Embassy is in the hills of Buda, solid 1 hour trip. Asked so many randoms on the way for advice, so friendly.
Coolest thing in Budapest? St Stephen’, last night I was alone in the square and just stood there for 5-10 minutes in the rain staring at it, it’s magnificent. The buildings here are inspirational, can I say that? I just did. The food is great as well and it is easy to get around with the metro system.
Stuff to do, changing hostels, found one that is half price and this one is filled with old people, I will save 15E, 15E in Bangkok can feed me for a week (I will do an experiment when I get there… If I go…) I mean just because I booked a ticket, doesn’t mean I have to go, yes?
My friend just left to Prague, cost him about 85E for a 2nd class ticket. Curious how much I racked up on that Eurail. At first I was bummed about the price but turned out to be an amazing investment. If you come to Europe, why not see it? That said, if you are in Budapest, you can get to Bratislava for 20E.
Tips hat,
P.S: Maybe should visit my monk friends at the Laos border!?
Search Du Jour:!? “when is the next five dollar rabies shots again” – Result
Hello,
About 3 days ago, I started carrying a pen and notebook with me to record random thoughts that I catch with a net in the ever flowing stream of consciousness going through our minds…
- Sh!ttiest bikes in front of most expensive apartments
- Never make decision about a jacket while indoors
- Walk fast when tired in strange cities
- Meet fun people in your home town in tourist areas
- If you put a birdhouse on every tree in your backyard, you will have a small village living there from luxury penthouse to ghetto
- Every exam is basically a hard question with tests of knowledge from previous lessons, they just re-arrange things, be ready
- Partying in Amsterdam is dif than waking up in Amsterdam
- Pass top of cap when sharing drinks and you drink from bottle
- Adsense optimize old high traffic SE pages.
- Know your pocket contents when traveling
- Being over prepared is worse than under
- Eye of beholder dictates reality
- Day on train beats day in rain
- Freedom to choose or financial noose, choice is yours
- Happiness is making a dream reality
- Being too cold is worse than too hot
- Being available is great but what is too available?
- What you want and what is good for you is often different but what is good for you anyways?
- Life is too short to shiver
- Even old people come to Amsterdam to see what is cracking, why aren’t you?
- 2.5+ billion women in the world, how can you marry just one?
- When good things happen go with, forget all other plans and run with it.
- Notice signs and follow them, they will always be subtle
- Plans suck, you know outcome, no plan, anything can happen
- If warp speed existed, how would you spend your day?
- Cities are like life, better to know somethings or cities well then nothing about lots
- Life is the best choose your own adventure story ever
- Only drink in public
- Forget a honeymoon and use that cash to have your 1st child in another country so they get another nationality
- Dogs like heat vents because the house is too cold when you leave
- If you want honest advice, ask a stranger
- Never book a flight when bored
As always, we here at SHABL wish you the very best.
Tips hat,
P.S: Off to wander the streets with a swagger and a smile.
Search Du Jour!?: Vienna Prague Train – Result, here.
Good day,
So you’re in Amsterdam? Sweet.
If you enjoy being in Amsterdam but like myself detest waking up there, this is how you could chill out and end up in Budapest, the next day by taking a night train from Amsterdam to Munich then Budapest.
The cost of an overnight from Amsterdam to Munich, Germany is 20E if you have a Eurail pass. From there the train leaves to Budapest ~2.5 hours later. You arrive in Munich at 7am and Budapest leaves at 9:30. Just enough time to meet some randoms and share some laughs.
The train arrives at Keleti station in Budapest at ~5pm. It goes through Vienna so if you last minute have a schizo moment, you could also hit up Prague or Bratislava, no problems.
The 20E ticket will get you a 6 person sleeper. The train leaves at ~8:30pm so if you have been in Amsterdam all day, good chance you will have a great nights sleep and wake up when the conductor knocks on your window and says GUTEN MORGEN or something to that extent.
Worthwhile and great way to get moneys worth on pass.
Tags: Amsterdam, Budapest, Germany, Hungary, Munich, Netherlands
