Early morning checking from son Andy who is traveling finds him still in Budapest. While he is impressed with Budapest he found Belgrade "more exciting". I am not sure those words are reassuring to a mother. They visited a War Museum in Belgrade and he found it unnerving to see artifacts from captured American Soldiers from the 1999 war! Usually when we see our soldiers mentioned in European war memorials there are many decades to soften the memories. We were very recently at war with the Serbs. Andy liked being the only tourists. People stared at them but were very friendly he states. There, as in many countries and some of our cities, they are crazy drivers. Wait until he sees China where I do not believe they enforce many traffic laws. If there is an accident, the involved parties hash it out at the scene and decide fault. They then pay cash to the claimant on the spot. I thought St. Cloud was going to seem dull to him for a while, but then I remembered the drivers in Stearns county!
Next stop: Lake Balaton, Hungarian resort area 60 miles from Budapest http://www.ohb.hu/city/balaton/index.en.html
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