My planning is done.

[vernon]

I'd never heard of the express bus. Thanks for pointing out.

It's a sound service. Some folk gripe about it but I have no complaints.

 

[vernon]

Sounds great Vern

How many bottles of absinthe are you taking?

I'll buy when I arrive. It's a lot cheaper and stronger there. Most of the stuff is 55% alcohol here - weaker than my Wray and Nephews rum.

 

[drewc65]

Best a luck on your trip Vernon. Sounds as though you got it pretty much sorted. Would be grateful if you could keep us posted on your progress. I belive the Hungarians do great pork products.

 

[Bodhbh]

I've found a promising online language learning app. Duolingo. My wife's learning Italian by using it. I have started to use it for German improvement. I could use my wife, she's a German teacher but I suspect that tension would arise so an alternative avenue was sought and found...

I'm confident that I'll cope. Much to my wife's chagrin I demonstrated the ability to read and understand Greek when we holidayed in the Greek Islands. Being a scientist/engineer, the Greek alphabet and phonetics were second nature. and I quickly mastered basic transactional Greek.

I've been using babbel.com to swot before going on trips, but sometimes the early vocabulary you learn is it a bit odd ("do you have an apartment?") and I find it's helpful to learn from more than one souce. I'll have a look at duolingo. Anything I can do at work on dinner break tbh, otherwise it doesn't get done.

 

[vernon]

I've been using babbel.com to swot before going on trips, but sometimes the early vocabulary you learn is it a bit odd ("do you have an apartment?") and I find it's helpful to learn from more than one souce. I'll have a look at duolingo. Anything I can do at work on dinner break tbh, otherwise it doesn't get done.

I am married to an 'on demand' source and she thinks that, based on her experience with Duolingo and Italian, that bit makes a good stab at raising competence.

 

[vernon]

The benefits of minimal planning showed up this week. I have discovered that there's a large music and arts festival in Budapest during the week before my flight back to the UK. Looks like it's about to be incorporated into my tour

 

[andym]

The benefits of minimal planning showed up this week. I have discovered that there's a large music and arts festival in Budapest during the week before my flight back to the UK. Looks like it's about to be incorporated into my tour

Erm, surely finding out about a festival before you go, and deciding to incorporate it into your tour, counts as planning? Not planning is finding about a festival after it's happened.

 

[vernon]

Erm, surely finding out about a festival before you go, and deciding to incorporate it into your tour, counts as planning? Not planning is finding about a festival after it's happened.

Erm no.

It's pretty difficult to miss as spans my departure date from Budapest to Leeds and I'll be riding past it on my way into Budapest.