Miss Havisham's House

21/08/12

Location: Budapest, Hungary

We got to Budapest late afternoon and we were starving! Not so much Kei as I brought two sandwiches thinking they were vegetarian but wasn’t, so Kei ended up having both. I hadn’t eaten for a long time and was on the verge of being moody. This is a difficult time for all of us, but for me, it’s very risky as the tiniest thing could cause me to explode with anything from anger, tears or frustration. It’s anyone’s guess.

So then we got lost. We got lost because the hostel directions were so poor and ended up walking up and down the same streets over and over, in the dark and carrying our backpacks through the exhausting humidity. When we finally reached our hostel it was down an eerie side street of the main road. It looked like something from a movie, but this time not in a good way. It looked like the kind of place were killings happen, and when we stepped through the rusty iron gate into the hostel, I then realised that I actually felt safer if I was back out on the street.

Once through the iron gate in front of us was this huge, wide, old concrete staircase (which I was convinced had blood spots on the steps). The tiles were coming up from the floor and falling off the walls. It was pretty dark inside and to give you all a clear picture on what it looked like, then just imagine Miss Havishams house. Behind the awaiting staircase is a wall made up of small little smashed through windows. Not that they would let much light in as behind the windows was just another concrete wall.

I would like to say that something really spooky happened, or that once we walked up the decrepit staircase awaiting us was a pool of vampires ready for their meal. Us. But that didn’t happen and as soon as we reached the top of the stairs it was actually really modern and quite nice. What a boring ending ay?