Novi Sad to Budapest

Novi Sad to Budapest
Sunday, August 09, 2009
2:02 AM

The girls headed out early that morning and said bye while we were half asleep. We decided on taking a night train to Budapest so we spent the day wandering around Novi Sad. Marko insisted we visit the Jewish quarter and we found a massive Synagogue that was pretty damn cool, Yaron snapped a few pictures. After that we found ourselves with a bit of time to still burn and everyone feeling pretty tired and in need of a relaxing activity so we went into a casino.

We all threw 200 Dinar, or about $3.50, into an electronic roulette machine and entertained ourselves for a few hours. At first everyone played conservatively but the Rondog invited a piano player technique for betting that made things even more interesting. I would assume that the people that were working in the place hated us as we were really loud the entire time and speaking in our 'chacaron' Serbian accents. I'll try and upload a video soon to emulate it but I'm sure plenty of you have a feel for it already if you've ever heard anyone impersonate Marko.

After that we headed back to the hostel and grabbed our gear and went to catch the train to Budapest. Marko assured us that it would be late and it was a solid 30 minutes late. We were told that we didn't need reservations because there would be plenty of space on the train but the ticket lady didn't consider the fact that Sziget, a 20 stage festival, was starting the next day. We spent the first half of the night train ride standing as it was too packed. On the train we met up with Tijana, a friend of Marko's who we had all known from the states. We eventually got our own car for the 5 of us and put most of the seats flat and had a comfortable ride.