Hungary

Bicycling to RomaniaThese days of reception work at a hostel in Budapest are coming to an end. I only have twelve days until I should be in the concrete canary cage of New York City. I am going to have to breathe in a lot of fresh air now to last through these next few [...]

How to Drink Absinthe“When I drink absinthe I go crazy,” spoke the Magician.I took this as an invitation to drink absinthe.“The last time I drank absinthe,” the Magician continued, “I woke up with in the morning with blood running down my arm and had a broken fist.”He then showed me his still mangled knuckles. “What [...]

Round Trip Plane Ticket from Budapest to New YorkI have just purchased a round trip plane ticket from Budapest to New York City and then back to Budapest for around one thousand US dollars. I usually don’t go in for round-trip tickets but the cost of a one way flight from Budapest to New York [...]

Artists, Wine, Cafes, Bars in BudapestFriends. Yes, I fell into the glorious mucky brim of a big pool of mad friends here in Budapest. The artists. I was walking back to the Bubble after a somewhat stale feeling bar-night which consisted of shot-gunning cheap tall boy beers in the streets with two affable young Manchester [...]

Global College LIU Road BlockFeeling a little sad today. Maybe a little confused. Momentarily unsure of what Road to take.Standing at the fork looking out in one direction and then the other. Thinking too much.Road my bicycle out to the Budapest island and tried to peddle it all out in my head. A road block [...]

Hostel work. Everyone goes about planning and doing their days all around me. I look over maps with them and tell them to go here or there, to buy stuff here and to eat over there, to walk up the hill over the river or to get beer cheaper in the 24 hours stores rather [...]

Hobo Hideout at Budapest Bubble HostelAfter a good, strong week at the Loft Hostel I moved over to the Budapest Bubble. It is a nice place inside of a Hungarian residential building and it looks and feels very much like a home. Kaitie from the Loft pimped me out and gave me the connection (she [...]

Budapest Skid Row Pigeon HuntingTwo skid row bums in the Gypsy quarter of Budapest were picking off pigeons with stones flung from a slingshot in the early morning hours of an errant weekday. “We did really well tonight, but now there are not anymore pigeons left,” they told us somewhat sadly as they opened up [...]

Pipe Talk and Graffiti in Budapest“Do you know Bairro Alto?” he asked me, “Everybody hates it [graffiti] there. But to me it is a newspaper on the walls. Most of the people hate that bullshit. ‘That graffiti, that graffiti’ [they say] . . . To me it is a newspaper. I am reading right now [...]