This took forever to write

Up earlier than usual as we decided to walk the hill that we had been  seeing since our arrival. 7 minutes in and Garmin advised that the 10 flights of stairs target for the day had been reached.

Hill conquered, we purchased another public transport ticket and headed back to shower and make lunch with the remainder of our leftover Aldi grocery purchases.

Aldi has been a daily visit must and it's not up to my standards. I need the aisles of useless sale items. These stores have only a small section. Their corn chips are small and taste weird, but they do have 2.25 litre bottles of Pepsi Max European style. Anyway, we hopped on a bus, transferred to a tram, Google mapped our way to the ABC little shop, and gave them our luggage to store for the day, as you do.

Onto another bus and off to either Margaret or Maria Island to check it out (at least I think the island started with m).
There were some ruins, a zoo, a church (which really surprised me in this part of the world) and a seat to eat lunch from.

Then a bus to the metro and a train to a big shopping complex, complete with cinema. 

Interlude: Why do I have to pay every time I go to use a toilet? $1 every time is pissing me off (they will probably charge me a dollar for saying that). It's giving me the shits (that will be $2). 

We wandered aimlessly trying to kill time before our 7:30pm train departure. The cinema only had English showings later that night so down to the food hall we went. It was that point of the day when the shakes start and tea is needed. Maccas was the choice. What's that you say, "why are they charging extra for takeaway?" Because we are in Europe.

Of course they forgot the milk. Ever tried miming "you forgot the milk" in Hungarian? Welcome to my world. Seated outside in the food court, Annette went in search of pastry, as it's probably the antidote to tea. She was gone for a long time as the cash register was broken. I've never heard of this before. What are the odds? Raspberry croissant and coffee thick shake. Mmmm it's a good thing I had purchased my toilet use from a ticket machine earlier.

We were going to eat dinner in the food hall but it didn't work out like that. We found a Decathlon sports store and after much searching, Annette purchased a small thermos in order to make and take her daily tea with her when on holidays. The budgeter calculated that this would save us thousands of dollars over the next 4 weeks. Sort of like growing your own marijuana in the backyard in a roundabout way.

A check of reviews led us to a small restaurant at 5:30. Although all tables were reserved and the tables were mainly unoccupied, they squeezed us in. The Vesuvius pizza for me and a pasta of creamy origins for Annette, with some spectacular fruity lemonade, and we were ready to collect our luggage and head for the train.

Onto the train we went and into the sleeper cabin for our nearly 13 hour trip. I volunteered to go top bunk. The ladder trip up was an experience, the mattress not very wide and it was hot, hot, hot. It cooled down a fraction when the air conditioning kicked in. Once started, we had showers (luckily we had towels as the promised towels were of the hand variety. At various parts of the night I slept. According to my watch, it was more than I thought. At about 5am I needed the facilities but the descent down the ladder did not thrill me, so I held it in.