Weather-Pest

Forty degrees centigrade. Thats about 100 for all you farenheiters out there. That is what thermometer read this morning when we ventured out into the beautiful city of Budapest. Seth and I grumbled for a bit, but we really can't complain much because we are on vacation. As we walked down the Danube River, which separates Buda from Pest, we took in the town. Drinking our carbonated water (which would have been regular flat water had it not been for the terrible translation/guess on our parts) we walked to the center square to meet up with our free walking tour.

There are free walking tours in many major cities in Europe. The guides work off of tips, the tours are more of a pay what you can rather than free, and are generally very knowledgeable. This guide was no different. The one thing that Seth and I could not stop giggling about was that the guide had what were obviously pre-planned jokes and as he would tell them he would just plow right through the punch lines. No delivery, no change of tone to set you up for the punch line. I compare it to the post office for myself. You hand the guy an important letter and he takes it without even acknowledging that you are alive. You know what, that was an unbelievably bad analogy. Well, you know what I mean.While we were on the tour the clouds piled up ominously. Seth and I looked at each other and immediately knew that the torrential rain was coming, and fast. Not more than thirty minutes later did the heavens open and let out more appocolyptic rain. The wind was howling, the rain pouring, and it was only by chance that Seth and I were inside the castle and could seek refuge, or "refugee" as our guide put it. Luckily the rain subsided enough for us to make our way back to the hostel. A couple of other guys staying at the hostel showed us a video they took of a tree falling down literally right in front of them from the wind today. Seth and I did something to piss off the weather gods apparently. The temperature when we got back to the hostel was 14 degrees celsius, or about 60 degrees farenheit. It was an interesting weather pattern today.