Goodbye Poland, hello Hungary!

Off again to yet another city. This time to Budapest, capital of Hungary, and a wonderful city by all accounts! I'll be leaving tonight on a night train, but the trip will take 11 hours. Hopefully the 1-3 other people in the compartment are nice enough.

Poland has been a wonderful stay and apart from issues at the hostel, was really wonderful. I really would like to come back. Yesterday I went to Bar Mleczny or in English, a "Milk Bar". You can read more about the history of them in general http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mleczny .

I think I went way overboard there since I spent 27 Zolats or like 9 dollars. Course I ordered the most expensive item on the menu, Pork chop with sides, a big plate of Meat Pergios, a piece of cake and a drink. All really top notch and filling. Almost everyone was Polish and the line was VERY long. Took 15 min to get food from the counter. So all worth it and being very near the middle of the tourist part of the city, a good enough deal. Also had to look at the menu of another place and learn Polish REALLY quick!

Anyway, after yet another lazy start I went to some wonderful salt mines, that you can read more about here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieliczka_Salt_Mine .
It was very neat to walk around and see everything in there, though I think it is somewhat over hyped and slightly over priced. Still worth the visit though.
Also could resist and went and got some Polish food in the cafe they had. Must remember the budget, but so hard to pass up cheap great food!

So Poland overall was again, a great stay. But this hostel was generally.... not great and I'm SOOOO sick of Aussies! They aren't the worst, though they are rather annoying and aren't terribly smart either. Then again there were a couple good ones in here, but they weren't in a group or had a travel partner, just solo travelers. Course there was the 3 German girls who were nice and in a group. So always some people who don't follow the rules! Well, hope the next hostels will be better. I'm sure they will since I skipped the "party hostels" in Budapest.

Drinking might be fun, though you really don't get that close to people in the party hostel and they are ALWAYS hung over. Just not friendly people in a meaningful way, maybe just the drunk party buddy way, IF that. Course this is the same in real life too. Heavy party people almost always seem to be flakes and untrustworthy. Seen it to often on my travels.

Ahh the piece of advice for this post is, if you have a cold and sore throat- Get drunk on cold Vodka and juice, go outside in the cold air, go into a smoky club for 5 hours and then take the "wrong" long way back and do that for an hour. Then get 4-5 hours of sleep.
SOMEHOW.... This DID work! Real cure, least this one time.

Oh other thing is, don't be drunk between 7 AM and 1:40 PM on a Sunday or Tuesday, least you end up on some random guys blog or Facebook, and made fun of.

Anyway, off to Hungary now in... lets see, 4 hours! So keep reading and passing along the blog! Thanks! :)