Budapest 2018: What happens when travel plans go wrong
Budapest is lovely.. unless you break your bones Although I will still say that I had an amazing time on this trip, at the end it did go spectacularly wrong. This story of course involves a lot of alcohol, mixed with a bit of carelessness and a lot of bad luck, which is basically a recipe for disaster. It was the final night of the HistSoc Tour of 2018 in Budapest, which had thus far been a drunken whirlwind of a winter city getaway, where we dragged ourselves out of bed hungover to cram in seeing the historical sites of the city. Budapest really is beautiful by the way; that day we had just been to the stunning Sz é chenyi thermal baths. The plan was that after the tour of around 30 of us went home, a smaller group of 6 of us were due to catch another flight on to Prague to continue our rowdy tour of Europe. The fun before the storm Cut to 2am in some club, and we found a stripper pole. It was on a platform, and as I went to stand on it I fell off, my ankle cur...