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I’ve got a bit behind on the blogging, but am currently travelling Back to Budapest from Ljubljana, which is a 7.5 hour journey, so plenty of time to catch up.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m on what looks like a small suburban train, but have been assured it’s the right one.\u00a0 No announcement, nothing on the display in the train, so we’ll see… No buffet either, so glad I stocked up on supplies last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budapest is going to be my last stop on this trip.  I fly back to the UK on Tuesday.  I’ve been feeling increasingly homesick and, since stopping the cycling, rather lonely. I met interesting people on similar trips at the campsites when I was cycling.   It’s been rather harder to meet people since switching to “regular” backpacking mode.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heat hasn’t helped. As it’s forecast to get even hotter I’m not keen to go back to cycling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So… back to Graz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journey over the Semmering pass was lovely.   It was rather difficult to take photos from the train (which had rather grubby windows), but the scenery was very dramatic.  The route twists and turns through the mountains – rarely getting above 60km\/h.  The train had come from Prague and was Czech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n