yurt

We spent the majority of the day with Henry and in the evening we moved out of the city on the 173-RED bus towards Erd (don't take the normal 173 bus as it takes you somewhere completely different as we discovered...), a gypsy village about 45 minutes out, to meet up with our CSer, David. This was definitely an interesting experience, and he is definitely an interesting fellow.. He has a Mongolian yurt. In his front yard. A real yurt, complete with fireplace, which we slept in. He lived in Mongolia for a while as a yak herder and liked the yurts so much that he had one sent over. He then decided to leave his "stable" yak herding career to become a beggar for 6 months in India, simply because "society needs beggars." I still haven't quite figured out in my head whether or not that statement is completely accurate. David's only job now is climbing mountains and he informed us on that first night over a glass of wine that we probably wouldn't see him for a couple of days as he was leaving early the next morning hitch-hiking to Austria to climb a mountain. He has attempted Mt. Everest a few times and his next goal is to reach the peak without supplementary oxygen. As I said, an interesting fellow.
So he left the next morning as planned and left us the keys to his house - trusting guy. The only thing that he asked of us was that we read through "the document", a list of things required to keep the household running, and to make sure the cats were fed. Done. We spent the next few days at David's house, chilling out in the yurt and trying not to get ourselves into a state where the idea of being back home in Australia sounded like a real possibility. I was feeling very much that way because of my newfound lack of trust in people, as was Lee. We even got to the point where we were checking prices of flights...
Well, sufficed to say, we didn't come home as is pretty evident to those of you in Adelaide. We instead got to spend some quality time with Aaron, a Hungarian-born-Kiwi friend of David's that came to stay with us in the yurt. He was really knowledgeable on political issues and historical facts about Hungary and shared a lot of this with us, not to mention his thoughts on Emo music and the cure for cancer that the government is withholding from us.

Photos:

said yurt

there was some cool stuff in there

one of the cats attacking Lee while Aaron cooks dinner in the background