“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.” Oscar Wilde I wake up with a hangover. Thankfully I drank last night so the…
Category: Hungary
Arrivals – Budapest
Saturday “I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.” Sylvia Plath There is nothing enjoyable about a night flight. The only…
Departures – Budapest
“It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning” Albert Camus Another blue sky. I watch the sun hit Szabadság tér. A symbol of…
The Last Night In Budapest
“I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only – still, I left.” Mihail Drumeş We are up early and there is a deliberate lethargy to our actions that has nothing to do with tiredness and everything to do with a reluctance to leave. Breakfast is not until 8.00…
False Spring
“It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.” Jack Kerouac After the warm weather yesterday a change has come in. It is wet and windy and the temperature has dropped to 5C. Which is perfect for sleeping in. Rachelle is up early, which means I am up early. It is…
The Garden City
“I like the posture, but not the yoga.I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.” Roman Payne I have packed for a cold early Spring. Budapest has delivered beautiful warm weather in…
Cities For Walking
“For age is opportunity no lessThan youth itself, though in another dress,And as the evening twilight fades awayThe sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sunday My sleep is not great. Jetlag throws the sleep around. I am awake at 3.00 am and my brain thinks it is 6.00 am and…