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.

 

 

p*rn content

It would seem that not only can i not access other peoples blogs or websites, but that their rules are so strict that I cannot even access my own blog as it says it is a high p*rn content ( spelling changed to protect what little access my site may have left ).

Airport Security

The next step of the big brother / or big nanny as I think of it more as, has developed.

 

Now at airports there are plenty of internet places, all costing one pound for ten or fifteen minutes but all equally flawed in that they have disables the control buttons and some even have the environment so far removed from the original explorer that it is hard to use even for an old hand.

 

With forty minutes I barely had time to search and book a hotel near the airport, as it appeared that I would indeed be wanting a room close to the airport. My contact there, being a daugher of Frank's penfriend has been out of touch for a long while and this has meant that I am not staying with them as was the original plan.

 

The fact that they have a surf cyber nanny which blocks a whole range of interesting sights means that you are very limited. I find it a bit of an attack against my civil liberties but then im finding that lots of people really dont care any more if they have any liberties of not.

 

People go on with their lives and chose at the time which laws to break and which laws to abide by, so ideas like free speach dont exist right up until they want to say something - by which time its often too late.

 

This is one reason why travelling is for me becoming a bore, as nothing now can be done on the hoof, and everything has to be done in advance or face the risk of missing out completely - at least

from the UK side of things. Once abroad you are open to a lot more things, if only you can read the lingo and go know what your looking at when you find it.

 

I have been offered to stay over due to the flight being overbooked, so i might do that if it really is a choice, as i dont want to get there at midnight and the hotel might have a better internet.