So apparently this is me for three months.

After 16hrs I arrived in Doha, Hamad Int. Airport. It’s really quite difficult to express just how enormous this place is. There is a garden in the middle of a shopping mall in the airport. People were doing yoga. I did not yoga.

Yeah, I don’t understand the bear lamp thing either.

During the flight to Budapest, we flew over the Afghan mountains. The view was like this for about half an hour. It was honestly astonishing, and probably more so in my jet lagged state.

By a strange stroke of luck, I found myself sitting next to a Hungarian Ministry Head of a Department, and we got chatting, albeit in very broke Hungarian and English. I was honestly just excited to practice some speaking, and he was patient enough to to listen and help me with my words, before switching back and forth to English.

He gave me his card, I gave him mine (ha!), we swapped numbers, and he invited me to his place in April with his family. He has friends, and this might bode well in the future.

(He was returning to Budapest on a personal holiday, hence not in business class)

Made it to Budapest

By comparison to Hamad, the arrivals ‘area’ at Budapest Internal Airport (Budapest Liszt Ferenc Nemzetközi Repülőtér) felt akin to the to loading dock of an up market ALDI. I imagine the departures is quite nice. We’ll see in three months.

Sajnos, nincs fotó…

Graffiti on the wall of the transfer from the bus to the Metro from the Airport (Repülõtér -*flyingsquare*). Apparently shout out to Umberto Eco?

Graffiti on the wall outside where I am staying “I have another stencil also”.

My room for the next few weeks. I’m basically in a new place each month, but this is me for now, it's small but in a good location.

“Social Sciences” I wonder if sign writers make a lot of money in Hungary…
When I went up to a store person to ask about a book I was met with “*Fontos*?” ‘*Is it important?’*

Propaganda posters by FIDESZ/Orbán’s mono-government. Basically is says 99% of Ukraine’s wheat in genetically modified and Hungary wont support Brussels/EU’s attemp to help them out. They are all over Bp and a lot have been ripped/defaced/redacted by, I assume, the public.