After getting up, we headed over to the Danube (where we still hadn't yet been), and climbed the Castle hill, getting a brief look at the hordes of tourists visiting. Stuart and I both wanted to go caving underneath Buda that day, but sadly the tour was not available. Stuart's original itinerary took us to a small town called Szentendre that is just outside Budapest, so we went there instead. Unfortunately it was a big dissapointment. The town was expensive and tacky, and for a tourist town, not even that nice. We wandered around town for a short while before Stuart said what I was thinking, that the town sucked and we should leave. We each got this weird pastry thing before we left that was a deep-fried piece of dough with sour cream, cheese and garlic. It was pretty weird, but since I hadn't really had any lunch, it filled me up as required.
By the time we got back it was quite late, so we decided to settle our account at the hostel as we were both planning to leave the next day. Stuart was going to go to Pecs, but found out that all the accomodation was booked for a convention, thus throwing his plans into chaos. Over dinner, we discussed what to do, and Stuart instead decided not to take his flight to Bucharest on Saturday, but rather take the train that night to Bucharest and get there early, and then do Pecs after returning from Romania. So, after returning to the hostel from dinner and a short trip to the train station to book Stuart a ticket, we said our farewells, and Stuart departed for Bucharest at around ten. It really was rather sad as Stuart really was a terrific travelling companion, and travelling alone can be rather lonely at times. On the bright side, the solo travel would only be for a day until I meet up with the family in Susice.
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