Eastern Europe Trip: Part 1 of 3

I'm gonna split the eastern europe trip to 3 parts..

1. Descriptions
2. Pictures (will do this part when I have a faster internet access and comp)
3. Thoughts

This will be the description part..

Map courtesy of google map.. pardon me for the crappy illustrated route.. i'm not a very graphical person.. BAH! we arrived at Salzburg (Austria) from london.. from the map, we travelled clockwise to Munich (Germany), Prague (Czech Rep.), Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia), Vienna (Austria, not on the map but its near Bratislava), then ending at Graz and we flew back from there..

I dont feel like blogging every detail of the trip but just the interesting events.. 1st day... arrived at Salzburg, birth city of Mozart, and suemay and i found out that the budget accommodation recommended in the book is not that anymore! LOL! was pretty embarrasing coz we had to pay to take an elevator up to a hill and when we had arrive, the mountain huts were missing! I had even ask a waitress at a nearby cafe... not such a great start to our trip!

2nd day.. nothing much.. 3rd day went to munich early in the morning.. finished munich in 1 day as we didnt want to spend a night there coz of the worldcup-hyped-accommodation-expenses.. travelled overnight train to prague.. spent 2 nights in the scenic prague.. watched black light play.. basically a play with creative usage of UV-reactive materials..

Then from prague, we travelled on another overnight train to budapest.. met a guardian angel (will blog more about it in the 3rd part) got my wallet pickpocketed.. luckily that guy only took my money and left my wallet beside me.. cant believed it.. happened between 5am and 7am when we were asleep.. was barely sleeping the whole night and when i thought it would be safe to sleep as the dawn is breaking, it strucked.. grrrrrr... anyway, budapest is actually made up of 2 towns, buda and pest.. Cant remember which is which but 1 of it is really hilly and the other is really flat.. haha

stayed just a night at budapest.. kinda rush.. went to bratislava.. thats the city i least like.. can feel that the city is rebuilding.. its has a very rural feel to the city with some bits of modern stuff.. all kinds of foreign cuisine but very little local cuisine available.. next is vienna.. I love this city.. huge and nice.. a lot of cultural stuff to it.. the city centre is really nice.. cobbled roads everywhere and very pedestrians friendly.. relatively expensive city but still cheaper than london..

ahh.. its 2am now.. 6 hours till MAS counter is open.. and 10 hours till the next flight to Malaysia..

oh yea, to whom it may concern.. I am bringing this up to avoid any confusion.. I am not dating suemay nor there is anything going on between us.. I am pointing this out coz mel, my housemate(s), my friends and my mom asked me, directly or not.. =)