Saturday, March 16, 2013

Series of unfortunate events

Soo today is the day, plan was wake up get on a bus to budapest arrive by 2 pm have a late lunch and find the airport before 5 to get on our flight to barcelona at 630.
Instead right now it is 650 and we are still an hour outside of budapest by train.
The morning started off rough when frances recieved an email saying our bus from vienna to budapest was cancelled. So then we thought well how about a train And so we all meet at westbanoff train station and looked at our options. The next train was scheduled to leave at 11:45 getting us to budapest in 3 hours. This would have worked perfectly. But apparently we weren't ment to have a stressfree travel day, because we soon found out that train was cancelled. And so we looked at potential other options. Could we find someone to drive us to budapest.... answer was no. Traffic was backed up for 15 hours at the boarder to hungary do to snow. So train was the only answer. And so we hoped and waited for the next train to leave ontime and in a jiffy. But of course this was a series of unfortunate events so this train was natually delayed leaving, it was now 2 pm and IF the train took 3 hour we would get to budapest at 5 and have little to no time to get to the airport.
But of course we were on our way and had a 2 hour delay at one stop in hungary. Apparently there is only one track open between two stations in hungary because the others are snow covered.
And so at this point we have accepted that we will miss our flight. Which means we loss all our money because werw cheap college kids and didn't think we would need insurance, so we and have to buy a new ticket.
After arriving in budapest fances friend from her school back in the states is atudying there and she met us at the train station and let us crash for the night.
We found a plane ticket for 200 dollars (seriously the cheapest option) leaving at 6 am and we bit the bullet.
So we went and got some dinner and had a few hours of sleep before hopping in a cab at 330 to get to the airport nice and early.
Flight went well and we finally found our way to our hostel :)
More too come soon. Things can only get better at thia point.

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