The World is full of TESCO’s

Day 5-6

Today we drove from Salzburg in Austria to Budapest in Hungry. The camp ground in an old tram station which is kind of cool. Though noisy we pitched our tent on a flat surface but it had pebbles as a base. Not the best option but all that was around for us to camp other than mud. That night we stayed in the campground due to the rain. The next day we headed into Budapest itself for a hop on hop off tour of the city. We took our time to get out of there in the morning booked the tickets through the camp ground and the bus ticket in. It was all very easy and we had no problem getting into Budapest. we did the bus tour with a bunch from the group and it was good to have the company. After lunch and we had done one whole tourist route on the bus we went and hoped on the ferry. This took us up the river and back. It was good to get out on the water and see the difference in the city from the boat rather than foot or bus. I (Glen) had been here back in 2009 with some mates and we had a wicked time in the baths and just chilling out in the city. It was good to come back as a tourist and i can definitely recommend that it is a city which should be visited. We decided against the baths as it is something which would be done better as a group and we on a budget as well. That night we spent back at the camp ground talking with the group as usual.

I am sure you are wondering about the title of this post. Well while we were driving through Austria and Hungry and even into Romania we came across Tesco's this is a UK supermarket. This just seemed as a surprise as we didn’t think it stretched that far out to eastern Europe. It was like we had never left the UK sure they had an accent and the prices were in different currency but the shop was still the same. We bought a few items for snacks and for lunch on the long drives. One thing they didn’t have though were any tent pegs or tarpaulins. We don’t have enough pegs for our tent ropes and we would like a tarpaulin in case the future heavy rain is too much for our little tent. We shall continue this search but i wonder if it will be at another Tesco’s.