Budapest, Airports + Music

Touchdown Budapest, but only just.

 

Because I allowed them to offer me the hotel room on the possibility that the flight was overbooked it meant that I arrived and had to wait in the main terminal until the flight had closed.

 

As soon as I did that I realised what a mistake this was, as the whole terminal had turned into a crazy line to go through security. If you have ever played the basic game of "worm" then you will know that is is a game where the worm has to move but gets bigger and bigger and has many twists and turns.

 

This WAS the line for the security. It has many twists and turns, you could never see the end until you had reached it, it eventually even stretched outside the main terminal building, did a gigantic u bend and then even went into the pavement leading up to the main building.

 

It was insanity and it was no joke that I waited for over an hour and a half in that queue. Very bad as my flight left in only 20 minutes. That is right, because they had already booked me in, they had to wait and delay the entire plain just because thez overbooked the flight and did not want to give a refund and compensation. How idiotic is that.

 

During the flight I met a great girl from Budapest called Bridgett, who works in the Argos in Tottenham Court Road, near my office. In a little over an hour I almost had her entire life story out of her, it was very enjoyable.

 

When it landed I had booked into a local hotel that was only a few minutes away from the main terminal. This was best as with the delay I had arrived about 11pm, and did not want to fuss with many different changes of buses.

 

The hotel Ibis, same group as a few of my other trips I think, was fairly clean and well presented. Too far to walk from the city centre, but ideal as a stop over.

 

The rooms brouchures had everything you could want or expect in a hotel, but of course this was Budapest and so it has the local stuff in their too.

 

Hard to say what the weekend will have in store, but i woke up feeling lousy but as soon as I got to the cafeteria I perked right up, as I think the pop music radio helped a lot. I have not realised how much travel music could uplift my spirits and now I am sure that I must get myself an MP3 player and fill it with light and poppy tunes.