hungary

European churches are awesome.

Those Hungarians.. they know how to rap.. how to get down! Hey the man had the bawls to get up on stage and sing, that has to be honored.

oh man that was a long train ride. Going from Sarajevo to Budapest is not the best method, actually I think its quite bad. Almost anything would have been better than taking the one train out of Sarajevo that leaves at 7:14am goes up to Croatia, then over to Serbia then up to Hungary. 12 full hours of sitting in a cabin staring out at the countryside. To be honest the first few hours were pretty cool as the Bosnian countryside is pretty cool looking, Croatia too and Serbia but to be brutually honest they all look the same. After all its just a political boundary.

Around midnight on my first night in Hungary I was aggressively propositioned by a woman in need.... of something.

While in Budapest I was fortunate to get in touch with one of the "organizers" of the Budapest Critical Mass, the largest Critical Mass ride in the world. In 2005 they had 10,000 in April and 20,000 in September. That number grew to well over 50,000 rides in 2008.
I asked him a few questions about the bicycle scene in Budapest, why he does what he does and what he think of Critical mass.

This booth was just simply scary.

Wonderfully I happen to arrive in Budapest just in time for the last day of the Hungarian national track championships. It was a good time with a lot of good people