My Life in Words

Szia! 🇭🇺🇦🇹 I think that means hello in Hungarian. Hello can also be hello, but that’s not an interesting way to start this post.  I’m going to divide this post into two parts - Vienna and Budapest, because while they were similar in some ways, they were also quite different! Vienna/Wien Since it turned out to be impossible to get from Dubrovnik to Budapest in less than 8 hours and without spending $600+ on a one way ticket, I decided it would be better to get a cheap 1 hour flight to Vienna, spend 48 hours there, and then get a 2 hour train to Budapest. I’ve never been to Vienna (or Austria) so I thought it was a good opportunity to see a little bit of it. Despite it being just a one hour flight, getting off the plane and into Vienna was a completely different experience that getting out of Dubrovnik and onto the plane. In Dubrovnik I had to ask about 10 people which the airport bus was, which included a lot of vague pointing, eye rolls and unclear hand gestures. The Dub...

Hello from Montenegro 🇲🇪 I have spent the last 7 days on a 15.9 metre sail boat cruising down the Adriatic coast. And it has been glorious.... mostl y...... The boat itself is 5 (2 person) bedrooms and 3 baths, for 9 of us on board. While it is a decent size overall, the sleeping quarters are pretty cramped. There are two bunkbed rooms and three double bed rooms. Naturally, the doubles went to the couple, the mother/daughter and the skipper, so I ended up in a bunkbed room. The top bunk is squishy, to say the least, and as I am one of the smaller people on board, I had to put my hand up to take it (some people would not physically fit). While I did my best to channel my inner KK and enjoy the novelty of a top bunk, it was a bit too ‘coffin like’ for my liking. I’ve been reminded numerous times this week by the fact that I am quite claustrophobic. Sleeping arrangements aside, the boat had everything we needed and was pretty well equipped. While it is a sail boat, we actua...

Hello, from Dubrovnik Im on holiday so it’s time to start writing again. I find this to be quite therapeutic, particularly when done with a cup of tea or a glass of wine in hand.    I’ll probably write 4 or 5 times on this trip - depends on how much I have to say I guess. I’m here in Dubrovnik for two days before heading off on a 7 night sailing trip down through Montenegro. I’ve been to Dubrovnik once before, so I think two days this time is enough. It’s such an unbelievably stunning place, but there isn’t heaps to do other than walk around and look at things. I’m not sure why I don’t remember it being as pretty as this when I was here 9 years ago. Maybe the weather wasn’t as spectacular as it is now, or I was drunk more of the time last time. My trip to get here was lonnnnngggg to say the least. 30+ hours. Actually so long I lost track of time, day, etc. It was comfortable at least, as I flew business class. After so much work travel, I’ve become accustomed to a...