When I went to Budapest a few months ago, I wrote a daily blog because there were so many things going on that I found sincerely interesting, and at times, humorous. (http://triptobudapest.blogspot.com/2010/10/getting-ready-to-travel.html). Being with old and new family members, and trying to get around a foreign country where English appears to be a last language, made it really interesting, and at times, very funny and fairly writable.
However, on this trip, it's business, and I'm here at the moment with a guy who doesn't like to shop as much as my wife (hmmm, seems to me that's gotta be a good thing, no?), who is interested in many of the same things as I am (more or less), and another guy will be joining us whose wife is from Venezuela, but he doesn't speak the language, so I'm not quite not sure what value he brings to the trip? And more importantly, there's no strudel (see blog URL above). So what could anyone find interesting enough in that to write about? There's no drama from the tug-of-war between husband and wife, there doesn't seem to be a great central story line (we're just here on business trying to get a few days in of warmth and sightseeing before we have to do a song and dance in front of a few hundred people), and there's certainly no love interest - well, maybe I'll offer an exception for the food - but there's still no strudel. So therefore, I'll just spout off here as necessary to blab anything of Earth-shattering interest that I might come across. Don't expect much.
I'm sure you're thinking "Thanks for wasting my time, Jerry, for those two paragraphs of nothing. That's 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back." Hey, isn't that what blogging (and Facebook) is all about?
Just emailed you to ask when you were leaving. Woops! Guess I'm out of the loop, as you're already there. Vaya con dios, as they say in the old country (not mine, but someone's . . .)
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