Catch-up!

Soooo, I updated my Tumblr once while I was abroad. This is that post, from June 13, 2011 (i.e., like two weeks ago):

There is going to be minimal keeping-up with the blogging/documentation, as there has been in the almost-week-and-a-half since I moved out of my housing. Internet is just too hard to come by without an laptop/ipad/cell phone/itouch/something that does me good when there’s wifi around.

I’ve been snaking my way across England the last week or so, mostly with Melbourne and her mother—we started in the Yorkshire Dales, then sort of criss-crossed back up to the Lake District (I played the piano in John Ruskin’s house! =P), then went south to Chester to see some Roman and English Civil War stuff. I split with them the next morning and took a train to Oxford, then another train to Salisbury—the closest town to Stonehenge, which was FANTASTIC—and then flew out of London to Budapest.

I’ve finally got internet, all thanks to the hostel I’m staying at. (Haven’t found a single internet cafe yet, but now I don’t need to!)

Budapest is pretty fantastic. Gorgeous, and all I did was wander today. After dinner I walked down the riverfront (of the Danube) past the parliament, across a bridge, past the palace, and back up the other side of the river. Marvelous pictures, but I don’t know if I brought the right cord to do any uploading. (Move-out/packing for this trip turned into an all-nighter, so I’m still not quite sure what’s in my bag.)

The hostel is nice, even if the internet is slow. The rooms are big and brightly colored, and the people are nice. I’m going to the opera tomorrow with a Dutch guy I met tonight—the tickets are so cheap. There’s a tram line right outside, though, so I’m glad I’ve got ear plugs. (Lame but effective.)

And the heat out here. It’s not as humid as I was expecting, but my fingers have swollen up. It makes me glad I haven’t been wearing rings.

Suddenly so, so tired. Going to see Verdi’s Otello tomorrow evening at the opera. G’night, world. <3