More detailed days on the mainland- (stolen from an email to the parents)

Jordan and I just walked five miles in the rain to the next city to get on the internet! All is well. We are in Hungary and we have a sweet setup. We have an entire house to ourselves and there is a really nice restaurant on the opposite corner from the house. It was like six dollars a piece for us to have a huge pork plate with fries, a salad, and bread! Plus Hungarian beer is so good! See if you can find Borsodi anywhere! It is like 1 euro for a half liter bottle at the restaurant! Perfect for any meal! And cheaper than a .3 liter coke! It was a miserable but amazing adventure to get from England to Hungary. We ended up getting to Calais France late because of the Eurail ticket mixup. So we got there at like 7:30 pm and the last train to Paris was at like 730 all the way across town. So we planned to camp out
> at the train station and wait until the early train. Well, then they closed the station so we were sitting on the concrete outside and it was very cold. There was an hotel across the street and it wasn't too expensive so we stayed there that night. Luckily we did knowing now we were pretty much going to miss the next two nights sleep. We got on the 1230 train to Paris and got there around 230. Paris is huge and we tried to figure out their underground system but everything was in French. Who knew? Also, distances on maps never look as long as they actually are! We spent the afternoon at Notre Dame and the Eiffel tower but the walk between the two was like 2 hours. When we got to the tower we realized the last train to Vienna was at 7pm and it was 610. We were going to grab a cab and jump on it but it was rush hour and we couldnt make it. So we wandered around the city a little more, met a group of high school graduates from Louisiana with their parents
> and talked to them for a minute. By then it was dark so we went back to Notre Dame and got some night pictures and then walked back to the Eiffel Tower. It was really cool at night and I got some sweet pictures. anyway we just posted up on the grass nearby and there were people walking around selling wine and champagne so we bought some and sat there for several hours and talked theology until the wee hours of the morning. At about three am we started towards the train station which was all the way across Paris. We walked like an hour and a half and at four thirty took a cap the last 5-6 miles! We waited around the train station for about two hours for the seven oclock train to Vienna and had to deal with a really shady Frenchman who wouldn't leave us alone. We got on the train and it was a twelve hour ride through France, Germany, and Austria to get to Vienna. We got to Vienna and realized we had missed the last train to Monsonmagyarovar which is the
> closest city to Halaszi where we are staying because our train from Frankfurt was an hour and a half slow. We spent the night in the train station in Vienna sleeping in a glass waiting box on the train terminal it was cold and uncomfortable and was our second night without real sleep. Finally at 630 am we got a train to Hungary. Got off two stops too soon, fought with the language barrier to find out where we were and made it to Monsonmagyarovar. We took a cab to Halaszi and had to wait around about three hours outside of the house to talk to the right person to let us in. Finally we slept in a bed for about 9 hours that afternoon (sunday) got up and ate dinner and watched some hungarian Tv (not good!) and then went back to sleep! Yesterday we got up and walked around town trying to find a store. We bought what we thought was 2 liter bottles of water and it was soda water. Gross! and then went to dinner at the restaurant next door. Our English speaking
> contact was working and she gave us a typical Hungarian dish of cooked pork with gravy and fries. There was also a sauerkraut salad thing that was really good too! Anyway, we spent about 3.5 hours last night writing on our novels (jordan started one too) and then back to sleep. Today we got up and it was raining but we had planned on walking to town to find wifi. I had seen a mcdonalds sign on the taxi ride in so we were after it. It ended up being five miles in the rain to get here! But we found it and a big grocery store! Nice! Anyway, think we might stay here until Monday early and then take the train back to Vienna and then on to Venice Italy. I do not think we will make the trek back here to use the internet so expect something on Monday. If not sooner. Love you guys!
> Hunter