All is lost

I haven't written for so long, because we have been hoping to get Manfred's bag back. We assumed that it had been turned into lost & found, but we had to wait out a long weekend and then 3 more days to find out that it had not been turned in. Then we had to start the process of replacing passport and credit cards. Eurail Pass is not replaceable, we had used only 20% of the $2000 ticket (for 3 people).

We went on to Budapest, and had a very nice stay there, at least for me. Manfred was not feeling very good about anything. We had to stay extra days because the Canadian Embassy was putting up lots of hoops to jump thru for getting a temp passport.

Part of our arrangement was to stay in a time-share condo in the Hungarian countryside. We had it booked for a week, had planned to use 6 days, but 3 of those days were already gone. We rented a car, assuming that our GPS maps for "all Europe" would work, only to find that Hungary was blank. It took us 8 hours to make a 3-hr drive to this remote place, but it's very nice. Manfred wants to stay here longer and skip Prague, and even Dresden. There's nothing to do or see here, but eat and swim, which suits him fine. I hope he'll be bored with it in time for us to go to Dresden.

Sitting on the verandah in front of our apartment, I took a photo on my iPod, here it is.