Shiny Happy Crepeys

[Blackduck]

Over here all........

Budapest and Prahue - 4 days in each! Most relaxing journey ever so fsr!

Oooh BTM. How lovely. Prague is wonderful. And I have always wanted to go to Budapest.

Lalsy, any suggestions for things to do gratefu lly received! On the plane and noones had a meltdown yet

Is Budapest where they have those outdoor swimming pools?

You need MrsS for Prague too. And possibly Budapest.

I went years ago with little dc, though did manage to go drinking one evening, which was very good fun.

Have a fab time, BTM, sounds like a great trip.

I'm really only checking in to tell Stropps that I bought her snakeskin Converse and am wearing them for the first time today. Pretty feet ! I am work for last day for 10 days (yay - although the emails will be bursting out of the computer when I return). Must Get On!

Have a great trip BTM . Both cities amazing in their own way. Can recommend the Muzeum of Terror in Budapest ( with caution) if any if your dc's are doing history. It was a very affecting place. Also the various ruin pubs around the back of Andrassy út.
Also the baths- don't forget to bring a bathing hat or you will be shouted at you can spend a whole day there if the weathers nice.

So following my self-pitying meltdown last week, shall I indulge in this seasonally spring-like number?

MI I like and quite fancy the purple version - as a cold wind had suddenly cropped up.

Exchange with DD1 just now:

MI: "Hi darling, you look a bit more relaxed and chilled-out."

DD1: "I'm tired."

MI: "Early night tonight, then?"

DD1: "I haven't really done anything today so I won't be able to sleep."

MI: "Well, it's only 4pm, you could go out? Trot round the park? Go to the library or the shops?"

DD1: "Oh my god, how can you just come into my room and start ordering me out of the house?"

I left at this point. Without shutting the door, which slammed loudly....

MI

We are here! Had a relaxing beer in a lovely courtyard in the sun opposite our apartment which is all fresh and modern at the very top of an old building. We are planning to go to the Sz-something spa, but we have no hats Terror Museum sounds good - both love history (will forget that they said no museums!) and we can leave them home alone and try a bar or two!

MI sometimes you just can't win. Does sound pure classic Kevin the Teenager or should I say Kevinetta.

BTM you seem to have the most fab holidays I just have to holiday vicariously through you. School ends here on Friday but we're staying put as DD1 will be revising for her bac. I have told her what I thought of her plan to revise English at a sleepover with a group of friends.

How nice, BTM. I went to Budapest during my inter-railing years, but can't remember doing anything particularly cultural (apart from being touched up by a dirty old man in the Turkish Baths ).

DH and I went to Prague last year, so it's rather fresher in my memory. We went on one of those Bike Tours which I can certainly recommend as an interesting way to see the sights. The area round the castle is rather gorgeous, but we found a lot of the standard tourist places to be a bit.....tacky. There is lots to see, but well worth getting a little bit off the beaten track. The trams are brilliant fun and very cheap, once you've unravelled the mysteries of the ticketing system.

Oh, and take your DC'S to see the fountain in the courtyard of the Kafka Museum. Amusing.

Oh, and MI, say hello to our mutual friend. Mention "James Street" and she should have a good idea of who I am.

I like the cardigan, too, MI. Coincidentially I have just decided that I can't possibly go away without a new navy one, preferably with pockets, to pop on if the weather in the Med gets cooler. (My problem is that I can never imagine what the weather is like anywhere different from where I am at the time, and as it has only been 9.5 C today ... it does work the other way, I come back from Arizona in September in sleeveless tops, because of course the temperature in the NE is going to be 90 at the end of September!).

Sympathies to those of you with teenagers; they do get better, I promise you.

BTM your holiday sounds great - have a lovely time. Am almost getting excited about the fact that we go away a week tomorrow. Flight times have been altered so we actually go at a civilised time.

Oh, and I picked up my new spectacles today so I am looking tres chic (well, I think I do).

I came up to your neck of the woods for Easter a few years ago - it had turned unseasonably warm and all I had was cotton cardigans. For Newcastle. I feel the cold. My sister pointed out in the acerbic way that only a sister can that I was being a prize wally

Have dispatched both Inferiorettes to walk DD2's little mate home as this will give them some exercise. They seem to have cheered up, though this may be the prospect of egg and chips for their supper....actually DD2 has been great. She has realised recently that she does rather like having other people around in the holidays.

Tomorrow I shall equip them with the cash to buy pyjamas, I suspect, and send them both out.

Tried putting Woollover cardigans on my basket as they were on offer two for £50 and when they arrived in the basket the price went up.

MI you have to go Geordie - coatless at all times even in midwinter.

German correspondent said she loves my food - I'm keeping her

Have suggested DP buys me the cardie as he owes me half on the new printer and he wanted the sodding printer in the first place.

Am waiting for train having left Inferiorettes consuming egg, chips and ...spinach. They were not impressed

BTM I was once in love with a Hungarian. I thought he was amazing and unique. Imagine my surprise when I visited him in Hungary and found lots more just like him .

Brilliant holiday: travelled around a lot by myself as he was working long hours. Cried over a painting for the first time in my life (soldiers discovering the body of Loyos II after the Battle of Mohacs). Went to a music-hall evening of Gipsy music. Best bit was Santandre (?) The artists' colony outside Budapest. Bought a little bronze which I still love. Wanted to go and live there.

He was (no doubt still is) a womaniser though and crap in bed

BTM - Cafe Gerbeaud on Vorosmarty Ter is fabulous for cakes.

(Please can you bring me back some paprika if you think of it, from a supermarket - ie not poncy tourist one in a tin or fancy jar, just a packet. Csemege or edesnemes or a tube of Piros Arany, if you have time.)

I love Budapest - was supposed to be going this spring with my uncle and cousin. It's a fabulous city for walking round, lots of cafes and good restaurants. If you have time to get out of Budapest, Szentendre is lovely, with good restaurants, but very touristy.

I haven't been to Prague since before 1989, so no help there, I think. There used to be something very romantic and wonderful about travelling on the overnight train through Eastern Europe in the Bad Old Days.

See? Great minds think alike, Auriga and I both vote for Szentendre. (Although I have never shagged a Hungarian.)

I am envious..... I shall be looking at flights to Budapest.....

I am worried I am v shallow for finding new clothes so cheering (contemplating this too). I had a boyfriend once who said it was v tragic that I felt my happiest with a new frock and a new haircut. Mind you he was happiest when in the pub, drinking to excess and talking about his Wonderful Career (this was the alcoholic lefty journalist not the pervy museum curator or the stoned unemployed bloke ).