Stephen’s Travels

After my unfortunate experience in Romania it was about time to head west before my flight home from London. I left Bucharest around 5pm and ended up in Zurich, Switzerland about the same time the next day. I am over trainrides. I did some quick calculations and figured that I will spend over 1 week of time on trains this trip.

Anyways, I made a stop in Vienna for about an hour…which was just long enough to walk around in the blazing heat and get all sweaty. Luckily I found a grocery store so I could stock up on food, as I hadn’t eaten since I left Bucharest. Once my train left Vienna, it was non-stop beauty as the train zipped through western Austria and into eastern Switzerland. Zurich to be exact.

Zurich was/is one of my top five favorite cities. There was an amazing art museum, loads of shopping (though I had no money for that sort of thing), and great people watching. Most people spoke English which was nice. Actually, most people speak 3-4 languages. The city was really beautiful with a great public transport system. I really want to go back some time, you should try to get there.

No pictures of Zurich because of the whole camera incident in Romania. Oh well, at least I have a good story to tell now.

I apologise for the misleading title. They don’t. Well maybe they do, but that is a seperate issue. What some of them could use is a lesson in how to not steal cameras from travelers; namely myself. But I digress…

I decided to go to Bucharest after Budapest because one of my friends from school was going to be there and I thought it would be fun to meet up in her home country. So after my night train from Budapest, I walked the city until night time. The next day I went to the Parliamentary palace built by the ever so communist Nicolae CeauÅŸescu. The tour was nice, short and full of information. On my way back to my hostel via a delicious kebab place I found the day before, little children surrounded me and were successful in stealing my camera. What a shame. Luckily I had been removing the pictures every so often so I only lost a couple days of pictures. Sadly, I am currently unable to take pictures.

I cant remember if I let everyone know that I updated all of the pictures up through Prague, but I did. So go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevesearer to see them.