Your Shoulders are frozen (cold as the night)

Well, finally I have come to posting some more photos (of recent)!! Still coming to date with the 21st century and using photo-websites... havent quite got that down to a fine art yet!
These are some pickys of in and around Pest (one side of the Danube in Budapest - interestingly, the other side is called Buda). Pest is the poorer side, but very different in a good way (and excruciatingly cold). The heated springs (both real and artificial) seemed to be scattered everywhere, with people using them in their lunch-breaks from work. We even had a group of old men sitting in the large spring we were in, playing chess for hours. Hope they left for a pee...
The other photo is a typical mode of transportation - a bit more of a novelty for Tom than for me - I am used to seeing student bombs all over Australia, but in this part of the world, nobody owns a car older than 10 years old! So, Tom was excited to see these old things everywhere!

Let's Go Swimming in the Water

Well... still in lovely, freeeeeezing Budapest, but experienced something very different and lovely today... the world famous hot baths! The temperature here is at the momement hovering between -5 and -10 and there is no sun to be seen, so you can imaging how lovely that feels when you change into a pair of togs. That actually wasnt so bad, considering you do that indoors, but the big hot bath is outside, so you have a good 10-20 seconds of absolute torture in the quick sprint on the snow-covered pavement. But once in the bath, it is almost impossible to leave! So, after this, we decided to make a dash for the Sauna, so Tom picked up our towel, and we quickly scampered to the Sauna room. While the room was way too hot for me, Tom decided to stay in the Sauna for a little longer, and take a relaxing shower, only to be nicely interrupted by a crazy Hungarian girl who yelled at him for taking the wrong towel! Our towel was apparently whitER than hers (hers was a pink shade of white) and how dare he for taking it. Being colour blind (and human) it is easy for one to make a mistake, so he frantically apologised, but for no use. She continued and swiped back her white-pink towel while we have our white one back. Tom figured it must have been Karma for us stealing the towel from the Hotel we stayed at in Geneva!

After this, we both had a lovely massage, so are now both suitably relaxed and going back to the hostel for a read and lay down. Back to Belgium tomorrow. Oh - one more word of advice: Always calculate when using foreign currencies which require you to divide by a factor of more than 2; we withdrew 100 000 Forint today thinking it should be around 40 Euro, but later realised that it was actually 400 euro. Smart hey?!!

A heart of stone, A smoking gun

Well, here we are, back into the land of indoor-ness - therefore, back on the internet and watching trash on telly! We have just arrived in not-so-sunny Budapest after a pretty full-on week of snowboarding. What a fantastic holiday! We shared a chalet with 10 other people, in the most glorious surroundings of Morzine. Apparently, it's the largest skiing destination in the world. But all seriousness aside, I think most of us spent more of the week laughing rather than skiing/snowboarding! Between the bruises (we all saw Damien Radfords bum covered in shades from light pink, to brown, to purple) to two of our single-campers 'sucking lollies' in the middle of the night, to our quietest camper having a little too much fun on the last night, (while 4 people were in bed), declaring himself as 'wake-up-man' and proudly waking up some not-so-happy people, including our landlords upstairs! But the snowboarding was fun too. I gave myself 2 purple tennisballs where my knees used to be on my first day, while Tom has no damage - bugger him!
Will post some photos when I have them on CD. Until then, I think I will take a long bath in one of the hot bath houses in Budapest. Have to buy some eastern-european togs first tho....