The wifi never worked on my computer so I had to connect through the main connection. I switched it to wifi
for all Nicole's friends who came over last night to my party and by party I mean, they all came over and read their email on their fancy-dancy phones.
At any rate, two days ago, we went to Szechenyi thermal baths all day and got caught in the rain. The next day was shopping day at the Central Market. I soon tired of that but it seems Nicole needed to buy a lifetime supply of new purses. Today, we walked around Gellert Hill--some people actually walked up the hill but I wasn't feeling it and have done that before--I'll just look at the pictures when I get home.
In other news, bad luck for this group in the thievery department. First, my pick-purse incident; now, a train incident. Two of the people rented a couchette for a 17 hour ride to Milan. At a stop, someone broke into it and stole the guy's backpack from underneath his feet. He lost a lot of journals and other personal things but I don't believe passports and money were in there. There are 6 theater people left here--most are leaving tomorrow. And Nicole and I are winding down too. Leaving on the 2nd. This apartment and location has been great and remains the best place I ever rented (at least so far).
I was here before in 2005; in 8 years time, what seems to have changed is that the young people seem to have taken all the jobs, speak English, and are determined to make Budapest a major tourist destination. In 2005, I was refused service on more than one occasion because I didn't speak the language. Some of the older (as in my age) workers were downright rude. I didn't see any of that this time--everyone is nice; everyone speaks a little English, it's a different atmosphere. Same feeling as in Romania but I didn't expect to find it here. I've always liked Eastern Europe and it's nice to see the modernization but at least in Budapest, I feel they're doing a good job of maintaining some old world charm.
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