BUDAPEST (and a bit of ROME)(oh and a tiny bit of VIENNA)

Firstly I would like to thoroughly recommend anyone thinking of travelling to visit Budapest and a stay in a hostel called "Our Place Hostel".  It is a brilliant city and the Hostel was cheap and somewhere I will remember for a long time.
We arrived in Budapest after a 10 hour journey absolutely shattered and hot hot hot. The people in Budapest were extremely helpful in helping us find our hostel and when we finally got there we found it to be a very cozy and lovely flat with 2 rooms converted into dorms. It was the polar opposite to our hostel in Berlin. The guy who ran the hostel was soooooo helpful and friendly. We crashed out pretty early the first night then the next day we woke up and Jake (the hostel guy) had already organised a whole day of activities for us to do in Budapest. We went to see all the beautiful buildings (and there were A LOT) and we went across the river to the Buda side of the city. It was absolutely breathtaking . It was up on a large hill and so the views were amazing. There was a palace and a castle up there too so we had a great time exploring it all. We met a crazy Violin playing old man who just wouldn't stop talking about the history of Budapest. We learnt that the big 'Chain Bridge' was made is Sheffield and designed by a Scottish architect, you learn something new everyday!
The next day we decided to go and visit the famous thermal baths. They were really lovely and it was nice to relax for a day. That night Jake took us around the city to 3 brilliant bars. The first one was a huge warehouse type thing that looked like it had been invaded by artists, the second one was similar but it had lots of little cool rooms.The last one was on the roof of a building in the centre of the Pest side. It had amazing views and a very cool atmosphere. We atlked about a lot of things like what we want to do in the future and he said that he felt like we were his little sisters :)
The next morning we woke up early(ish) and left while Jake was still asleep but he must have woken up as we closed the door because he came running down the stairs and gave us a gift each. It was a locally made bar of lavander soap (what was he trying to say) with a personal message on it saying
To Emma. I am so glad to be part of your first time journey. From your friend in Budapest Jake.
He was such a lovely Korean Buddhist man.

We then boarded a train to Vienna. Don't ask me what Vienna was like, I don't know. This was due to the fact that I spent all the 5 hours we were there in a McDonalds just outside the station. I know...shame on me. But, there were no storage lockers free and so we physically couldn't walk around with our huge backpacks so we had to resort to sitting around making card towers (which I was VERY proud of)

We then got on our overnight train to Rome. On our way to Vienna we had realised that the ticket we had brought that reserved us a bed each on the train was for the 9th of September not July. Stupid Hungarian ticket lady! We never mentioned September!! So Hannah phoned her trusty father Barry who saved the day by booking us 2 seats on the train. So we spent the 14 hours on 2 seats instead of beds :( the seats slotted down into a flat area but they were still extremely uncomfortable. Luckily we were in a little compartment with 2 American guys and 1 American girl who were very friendly and funny, so that was the plus side.  We woke up at 7:30 in the morning to find the Americans had got off at an earlier stop and had been replaced by a very loud Italian woman. great.
We got of the train ad took a train and two buses to get to our campsite. Our "private suite" turned out to be a shed-like object with 2 beds and a shelf. We spent most of the day by the pool. It was strange not being in a bustling city anymore so we began to get a bit homesick because we had suddenly stopped long enough to start thinking about home. We decided to cheer ourselves up by having dinner at the campsite restaurant and go on Facebook. The pizza we had was A-MAZING! Proper Italian pizza much better than any in Britain. Facebook made me feel better because I spoke to my family and friends which is always nice.
Today we decided that it would be a good idea to get into the city and do some sight-seeing. We went to the Collosseum, the famous fountain, churches and lots of other magnificent buildings which seemed to be on every corner. Rome is wonderful, there is so much history everywhere you look (and lots and lots of nuns too) We had to buys some very expensive insect repellant because I got eaten alive last night and have gruesome lumpy bites all over my legs with itch like a bitch (Dad, I'm allowed to say it for rhyming purposes)
We got back to the campsite and had watermelon with our feet dipped in the pool then shared another pizza and chips.

So that is you up to date.
Thanks for reading
Miss you x