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At the big square in Budapest.
Date: 08/28/2008
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More from the big square.
Date: 08/28/2008
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Typical city architecture. Not much yard space.
Date: 08/29/2008
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Reflections.
Date: 08/29/2008
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Fire jugglers. They watched us perform and enthusiastically invited us to watch their performance just down the way.
Date: 08/29/2008
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Date: 08/29/2008
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Date: 08/29/2008
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I searched for a cheap plug adapter far and wide in Budapest. The cheapest one I found was about 20 Euro. Finally I made my way to an open-air Chinese market. I got chatting with the folks their, and before I knew it, one had given me his own plug adapte
Date: 08/30/2008
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Me and Budapest. What else could you want to look at?
Date: 08/31/2008
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The Moose and the most beautiful bridge over the Danube in Budapest.
Date: 08/31/2008
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In Budapest we stayed with Anna, a lovely woman who opened her apartment to us. Her boyfriend, Daniel, plays drums in three rock bands. The night before we left, two of his bands played a club. Anna put us on the guest list and we were able to enjoy a
Date: 08/31/2008
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Daniel's primary band, The Yellow Spots, performed afterwards. You might call it Ska Punk or Swing Metal. It features light, jazzy, peppy instrumental riffs (sax, trombone, trumpet, guitar, bass, drums) sung over by the raspy, doom-declaring voice of th
Date: 08/31/2008
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Date: 08/31/2008
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Date: 08/31/2008
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Make your metal faces!
Date: 08/31/2008
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Date: 08/31/2008
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Date: 08/31/2008
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Date: 08/31/2008
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Graffiti
Date: 09/01/2008
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Date: 09/01/2008
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20 km outside of Budapest, we biked with bunches of other people on a bike lane. We passed a bunch of people having a picnic in an open field. We looked longingfully but covertly at their beer and grills full of meat. Suddenly one of them signalled to
Date: 09/01/2008
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Drew, on the verge of quintupling his usual meat intake.
Date: 09/01/2008
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Erhu and beer. What else can a guy want?
Date: 09/01/2008
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The whole picnic with all of FBR.
Date: 09/01/2008
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Huge Hungarian church on a mountain side.
Date: 09/01/2008
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The trailer tongue broke AGAIN. Luckily this auto mechanic managed to weld it back together.
Date: 09/02/2008
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Grinding down the weld.
Date: 09/02/2008
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Smiling with Pete. He wouldn't take any money for the job.
Date: 09/02/2008
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One of the numerous bridges over the Danube. This bridge actually leads to Slovakia. Because both countries are EU members, there was no border check.
Date: 09/02/2008
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We found a secluded campsite along the Danube with of all things a table! I was excited, but everyone else wanted to eat around the fire, sitting on the ground. Shoot.
Date: 09/02/2008
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New territory for FBR. Morning swims and well...
Date: 09/02/2008
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Getting directions from a Slovakian truck driver.
Date: 09/03/2008
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This street artist drew Nakia's portrait for free. He enthusiastically supported our efforts to play music on the street in Bratislava and always dropped more money into the erhu case than he should have. He was one of the nicest people I've met the whol
Date: 09/04/2008
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Another street artist in Bratislava who drew the whole group together while we were playing.
Date: 09/05/2008
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Deer sign.
Date: 09/05/2008
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Slightly different deer sign (look at the antlers).
Date: 09/05/2008
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Entrance ramp for bicycles onto a bridge in Vienna. Can you believe they built this whole thing just for bikes. Vienna is a great biking city.
Date: 09/06/2008
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Our first night in Vienna, before we found Nick's place, we drank beer with a couple of Turks who worked in Austria.
Date: 09/06/2008
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In Serbia we had eaten the fruits contained in one of the flowers shown here-the orange one-of which I'd taken pictures earlier.
Date: 09/06/2008
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In the big cathedral in central Vienna.
Date: 09/07/2008
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A statue inside the church.
Date: 09/07/2008
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A statue in a park on the long island in the Danube on which a huge musical festival was held the weekend we were in Vienna.
Date: 09/07/2008
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Some cities have beverage dispensers. Vienna has bike dispensers. You can rent them by the day or the hour with a credit card and drop them off at any other bike kiosk.
Date: 09/08/2008
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After executing a wild goose chase in search of the street-performance-permit-issuing office, we discovered no licenses were available until October, but that we could play in a number of spots without a permit. We tried one and later realized it was the
Date: 09/09/2008
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Drew and I spent our birthdays in Vienna. As a present, Pete treated everyone to a Chinese lunch buffet, all you can eat, of course. Look at all that food!
Date: 09/09/2008
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We met Bern while playing on the streets. A busker himself, he gave up his playing time to listen to us. Afterwards we jammed together.
Date: 09/11/2008
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He's only 18, but plays guitar amazingly well and writes his own complex songs with English lyrics. He seems to have picked up most of his English from listening to Damion Rice interviews and speaks with a bit of Irish ebbing into his German accent.
Date: 09/11/2008
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Nakia in her favorite place: the vineyard.
Date: 09/11/2008
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