One of the great things about living in Hungary was how central the place is to other interesting places. It really was easy to just hop on a bus or train and travel around the country or neighbouring countries extrememly cheaply. So, one day my friend Elina suggested that we simply go buy some tickets and spend a few days in Italy. Along with Anna, another Finnish girl living in Budapest, we travelled by bus for twelve hours to see this amazing city. We also hooked up with a Canadian girl called Maria and spent a great deal of our time eating Gelato and Pizza, getting lost down blind alleys (no red-anoraked dwarves with meat cleavers fortunatly) and getting drunk on red wine. I also managed to share a bunk bed with a film reviewer from Empire magazine, rather incredibly. We later moved on to Verona for a day, but here a few pics of our time in Venice. And if you want to see the little film I made of our trip click here!

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I love this picture! Talk about cheeky smiles...this was taken on the bus as we left Budapest on the start of out twelve hour journey.	Sometimes one Gelato isn't enough...Okay, I admit one of them is mine. God knows how much of this stuff we consumed but we lived on icecream and pizza.
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This is me in St.Marco square. Actually I didn't much care for the place - way too many of us tourists but atleast it wasn't flooded when we came as it so often is.	This is Maria,from Manitoba (that's in Canada and not Africa as I assumed) also at St.Marco. She was backpacking around Europe and we met her on the bus from B'pest.
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Rather grim pic of me (Thanks Elina!) and I could be anywhere but it is Venice, really!	This is Elina miserable because she's just eaten two Ice creams and it's still 45 minutes until lunchtime.
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And this is the famous Bridge Of Sighs in the Canale Grande. Yeah, big deal, we have one just like it in Oxford.	The start of an amazing night. No point in attempting to explain what a great time we had on this evening. You really, really did have to be there!
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It was a hot day, I was in the company of Finns. It was obvious we'd end up sitting around getting pissed really. Shame most of the bottle ended up on my trousers ...

So this is just a handful of pictures really. I could have posted thousands (literally, as they are screen grabs from the hours of video footage I took - hence their low-res nature!) If you'd like to see some more pictures from my time in Hungary and beyond check out the links below: Hungary Gallery
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