Subject: Budapest again
Back to Budapest to Petra and her Deux Chevaux and her whippets! She showed me the website airbnb (bed and breakfast) where she is renting her spare room to tourists. The website has exploded with activity since she joined. We sipped the bad wine in cardboard from Zagreb and the eau de vie from Croatia. It gave her a headache.
The next day we dropped off the dogs at her mother's and drove out to a nearby village where she was to interview smokers for market research. But she had left behind her display of cigarette packs, so I rode back to the flat and stayed to write you about Croatia.
Petra went back for more interviews the next day and I descended to the city to buy my bus ticket for Vienna and for a last day of sight-seeing, visiting the big city park with its old castle/museum, peeking into the hot baths, walking through a contemporary art exhibit and by the House of Terrors. In the lobby was a video of a man weeping, asking why, why did they have to hang them? The outside of the building is lined with cameos of some of the many who were killed within. Petra has never been inside; it is beyond her budget.
I stopped in a bike/Segway rental place with used English books and looked for the short story collections with the most pages. Can't travel with nothing to read!
Dinner was in another nearby village, and Petra was sorry to learn she could have brought Boris the whippet to the restaurant. Margit's beau was too shy to join us so we three enjoyed beer and soup and I forgave them for lapsing into Hungarian with each other.
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