settling down

it takes time..
fast pace, dealing with many things at the same time, lots of things to think over and many things to plan. this is what i've been doing since friday. this is london.
but i'm used to being here already. my second home in the end, the same uni, the same circle of friends, thanks to whom i can feel home again. there's only Balint missing:_( i can't wait to meeting you here, hopefully soon Medve!:*

London..

..yeah, i arrived here last nite. it wasn't a pleasent feeling at all to leave Medvekomam and Hungary.. i'm already missing my Big Happyness a lot..
and what's happening here?
i'm with nora and iza in a new house. in the end i can't remember whether i ever mentioned that we got that house near by greenwich. SE13 though. i'm at the university right now. for me all this is a big introdiction to my new reality. let's see what it brings.
p.s. as soon as we set up internet in our new place, i'll finally upload pictures from my holiday. from Our holiday Medve;)

back to the uni

4 days left..

I'm having a great time here in hungary with my medve. we've spent most of our time in budapest, and last weekend in szombathely. i was wandering around in pest a little bit on my own, as balint had to go to the uni. my first impression of hungary's capital was positive, even though the weather wasn't nice at all. but only after balint and his sister zsofi showed me the best parts of the city i can say that budapest is a really nice palce. it has got a briliant location - on two sides of duna river and it is sorrounded by some quite big hills (i would say small mountains). there're many charming places, as views from those hills and from duna banks are amazing! during the day and by nite. and what impressed me a lot are those old, also renewed buildings like castles, palaces, churches, old houses and some ruins that look mediterranean alike. and with this lovely weather that has been here for a week, you can really feel like somewhere in greece for instance. central europe rules! what's also worth mentioning is our luck or badluck, as excatly when we arrived to budapest, a political affair happened. it's a scandal that hungarian prime minister is involved in, as it turned out and it was publicly announced that him as well as fellows from his party have done anything good (if not nothing at all) for the country since they won the election. after revealing this, those from opposition got furious and stated organising even violent protests. they want the prime minister to resign. i have to also add that he said this to his fellows, because he doesn't want to lie any more and he wants a change for better. i don't want to write about this more though, because i'm not informed that well and i'm not invloved in politics either. so i'll leave this subject for those who have got more to say. just to sum it up, since this affair started, we've watched this terrible manifestations on tv and once in reality. events from first and second nite were quite serious. its participants showed a lot of violence and they put a fire in a tv building (old and very prestigious i must say). as i'd mentioned earlier, we spent saturday and sunday outside budapest. on sat morning balint brought me to that little and honestly cute village called tihany. it's on the hill as welland what's the most important by boloton lake (huge and pretty). we had a very yummy meal there - harcsa paprikas , which is a catfish in a traditional paprika sauce served with turos teszta (unfortunately i can't put hungarian letters right now) - home made noodles (more like pasta) with cottage cheese (well, for the english, as here in the east we've got twarog and this differ from cottage cheese quite a lot) and fried, crunchy bacon bits (skwarki for the polish). in general, i like hungarian food, especially balint's mum;) some of those things she's made up by herself! my no.1 in hungary is thick spinach soup called spenot fozelek. not mentioning national sousagges and wines! those home made/local as well as those from shops are really really nice. on saturday nite we were partying a bit in szombathely (yeah, local discos rules as well!;P) and sunday was just a perfect day. we went for a trip with medve's parents to a few villages (i can't remember amusing and complicated names of those) just by the austrian borderline. it was really pretty there: hills, old cottages and lots of grapes, as locals produce wine mainly as their hobby. after that we visited koszeg, very pleasent little town with a nice square. there i tried langos and funny looking spiral pastry covered in sugar and baked by spining it on a kind of metal stick above fire. today, we're back in budapest, and i still have 4 more days for discovering the city and what's the most important, enjoying my time with medvekomam. kiss for you my priceless treasure! ;*

a lovely square in szombathely


having a stroll there..


..with balint's parents


another pretty city - budapest


budapest - view on the parliament


in the middle of the protests


polish - hungarian connections
(polak - wegier dwa bratanki, i do szabli i do szklanki. i na impreze;)


in 'house of terror' museum, budapest
shocking!




traditional 'paprika shop' in a little, lovely village called tihany by balaton lake


balaton


having a káve in a cafe there


an da nice, easygoing hungarian beer in szentendre, another small and very pretty town near by budapest. (but you won't see the town here. you can if you come over one day and look at it in my computer;)


vineyards in vaskeresztes village,just by an austrian border

Magyarország

so, we're here since 4am today. we were driving at night so it went quite smoothly. and now, after waking up here and breathing in fresh air from Szombathely i can look at certain things from a bit different and better perspective, and i can say that: i really enjoyed it in Wroclaw and Krakow. i don't feel like giving some more details about that trip right now though. it sunday in the end and i just wanna be lazy;P just to sum it up - Polska is a nice country, and i can even imagine myself living somwhere there again and soon;) but for now - i'm a foreigner again. and that's perfectly fine!
szia!

pretty city - wroclaw
(yes, i know how amazingly glad you are right now iza;)


wroclaw by nite
like a postcard, innit?!


market squar, wroclaw


having drinks in 7 kotów pub (7 cats)


wroclaw's dwarfs;P


on the way to kraków


there somewhere as well


a restaurant in the old town, kraków
delicious food we had there!


a must try in poland! - pierogi

together in Warsaw

just want to say that we are here and having a good time. there have been some family dinners (yammy yammy food prepared by my mum and two grannies. big thank you to all of you!)and family chats (yeah, i've employed as a full time translator here), we've met a few of my closest friends (i'm very happy with this. it was great to see you all!), we've done some sighteeing (but more a casual wandering around in the capital) and been comuting by balint's, cool i must say, vehicle;)
tomorrow is our last day in warszawa. on wednesday we're off to wroclaw to see iza btw ;P ;) and on friday we'll be testing krakow. well, i should decide soon where to settle down in da future;).. and then hungary from sunday.
till next time!

my beloved dog max
picture taken by balint


warszawa in balint's eyes


in oldsCool toyota
(smigamy po miescie;)


lolek pub, warszawa


hot zywiec with some sweet extras
(grzany browar poprostu)


lazienki park, warszawa

polska

i came back last nite. oh, it was a very tiring day for me. after 4 hours sleep and 9 hours in total of commuting from london city to stara milosna city, ughhh.. and they even put your shoes through an x-ray machine at the airport. no liquids, no even lipstick!
but coming back to our trip, it was honestly very very nice. it was quite chilly up norf but the air is so much fresher and cleaner as well. so when we got off in london euston, it felt nice that it was so warm, but after a while spent in this fumes and stuffiness, i regreted that i was back. it was all a good experience in northern england and in scotland. this made me think - why am i still living in london? if there are so many more pleasent places in even UK itself! well, the uni and good friends of course are things that make me stay there for a little bit longer. hmmmm! a little bit.. and medvekomam is gone.. also, three years is enough to experience what london has to offer. the trip! edinburgh is a nice city and its panorama looks very impressive as well. we were mainly strolling through the old town (that is massive), but we also found out how scots prepare their water of life. and we tasted it of course. (no ba!) after 2 days in the capital, we had a brief look at glasgow and afterwards we headed more up north - mallaig and the following day we got to isle os skye by ferry. we were really lucky as everywhere we stayed we had a brilliant view from our room/tent: lake, mountains, port, boats,.. what more do you need to start your perfect morning?! a porridge of course! but this is the only thing that i didn't have there. but i had lots of other goodness instead;P we were going for trips in the mountains and to the pubs. there were rainbows, waterfalls, streams and the sheep;)
well, and now i'm sitting in my old room, this pink walls get on my nerves a bit but, it's home sweet home in the end. and got internet here!;D (thanx adam!) today i was chilling out a bit. but i'm also trying to sort out a mess here as it seems like my beloved ones have made a big storage room of my bedroom. balint is coming tomorrow evening and we are gonna play big holiday makers. a small trip around southern poland and after that, very exotic sounding to me - MagyarorszĂg.. ;)
and that is it for now. dobranoc. Zzzzzz....

or rajt?!

oh, i'm really annoyed right now as my long post somehow got deleted! shit!!ÂŁ"ÂŁ^&^%&ÂŁ%$&*%^&*&

all i'm gonna say now is - i'm back in london since last nite, and fortunately for a couple of hours only. i'm flying to poland this afternoon. you may find out sth more when my anger will go away n if i manage to go online during my stay in polska or hungary.
bye for now

little, port town - mallaig, highlands - scotland
view from our room


another little town - armadale, isle of skye, highlands - scotland


a capital of skye - portree
pure beauty


standing stones - old man of storr, highlands, isle of skye


here i ended up in the mud;]


tasting scottish 'water of life' - single malt whisky in a local pub, portree, isle of skye