budapest

European churches are awesome.

Sadly my time in Hungary has come to an end and the real world has started to flood in :(. I'm flying from Budapest to Paris then Paris to Beijing today and will be home tomorrow morning. I have a ton of videos (16) to upload but that's for another day. Today is for checking email and making myself tired in order to sleep on the plane.

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.

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.

I just though it looked and sounded cool.

When I visited Budapest, Hungary I used couchsurfing to meet up with someone and borrow their couch for the night. The place was a bit older and a bit run down but it was awesome, absolutely amazing.