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When it comes to travel....well all will be revealed in my novel coming out this year (nothing like a little bit of premature publicity.)

Let's get...Geographical!!!

I was very tempted to write this post in the similar style and intention as a carefully scribed letter sent from an articulate serviceman of WW1.

 Dearest Phyllis, 

 The gangrene has taken my leg, but you've taken my heart...

But I decided against it as I thought for you to keep the well-spoken proper English Alfred Lord Tennyson accent in your mind for the entirety of this blog would have called upon a great deal of effort.

Instead...as I pen/write this from Budapest, Hungary on my iPad with my hands cramping up from the not so good ergonomics, I will tell you about my travel encounters so far.

Day one - Paris. It will forever be known as the great robbery of 2013. Well that's if a theft of some winter woollies, a GHD straightener and some boots can hold any impact....it can...

 My poor sister loses her luggage somewhere between Perth, Singapore and Paris....and all she gets is a crappy Air France t-shirt (Badum ching- her joke...not mine)

Despite what I would like to have seen, she doesn't throw herself on the ground hammering the floor with her fists, instead she handles herself with utmost dignity...how dull.

Day two - Paris. We climb the Eiffel Tower and while looking at the map trying to locate prominent structures, I.e the Sacre-Coeure, Moulin Rouge etc, I make the mistake of trying to locate the Eiffel Tower before realizing..."oh well that's rather embarrassing...we're on it". I was tired ok! And too many croissants may make me happy but the wheat messes with my mind.

 I choose happiness every time. 

Day three - we arrive in Budapest to discover currency is in the thousands. Our lunch for three is a decadent $9333. Really only about $40 for three meals..pretty good! We try to learn the local lingo and discover eksjdhbgfjdjdksksjjdjdfjfjfjfkfhsgdj-re* means 'cheers'.
*disclosure:...no it does not

Day four - today. Time to stop blogging and explore...

Weekly invention: at each airport you visit throughout the world there should be a business card sized brochure with basic greeting translations. Also, we thought you should have to scan your luggage upon leaving the airport. That way if you steal someone's luggage you'll be tackled to the ground and the unsuspecting traveller who had their luggage stolen will not have to shop for replacements for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours.....

Next week, I'm thinking....it'll have to be geographical again. Sorry for the lack of variation...I must go now, there's some goulash calling my name!

egészségedre - cheers!

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