Europe tour Interail 2006 : Pécs, back to Hungary

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We then took the train back to Hungary to visit a city called Pécs. This city is the 5th largest city in Hungrary even though the city center is quite small. It is surrounded by fortification. The main square is called Széchenyi Square in the historical center, there we can see the Mosque and the statue of Hunyadi János on horse back. Hunyadi János was the governor of the kingdom of Hungary in the 15th century and voivode of Transylvania. Twelve streets leads to this square. We also walked around the fortification on a pedestrian road.  This city is interesting because you can see the vestige of some medieval constructions.
To get to our next destination we need to first take a train to Gyékényes, at the border with Croatia where the controller decide to make us pay for a reservation or want to have us leave the train at the next stop as we don't have Euros. Hopefully we will find someone to lend us the money.

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Europe tour Interail 2006 : Bosnia and Herzegovina, amazing hospitality

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We left Hungary direction Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The train was pretty scary and noisy and we were asking ourself if it was not going to fall apart but we still arrived safe and sound in Sarajevo.
The city was amazing. It contains Synagogue, Church and Mosque in the same area, some people should really take a chance to learn about diversity taking this country as an example of what can be achieved. There are still traces of the war as they are part of history but that is not the most important.
We stayed there a while, walking around and also watching a match of giant chess.
The only think that annoyed me was to be attacked by flying ants in the main place but I think that's part of the fun. I had never seen that many of them and I'm not a big fan of insects especially when they fly.
We then took the train again to go to Visoko. Visoko is a small village between Sarajevo and Zenica, we wanted to go there to see the pyramids. The fact that they are pyramids is a bit controversial, you can discover more about them here.  In the train people were indicating us where we should go and we met someone from the place who proposed to actually show us a bit around. We ended up spending the evening with him and his family. Bosnia offered us one of the best greeting we had so far during our travel.
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Europe tour Interail 2006 : Budapest

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We arrived in Budapest (Hungary) at 8am, we started with taking a shower and breakfast before noticing that the next train to leave to our next destination was from the other train station. We crossed the city with our bags, I mean the big big ones, I was really dying, so heavy. But we finally made it to the train station where we left our bags for the rest of the day before going to visit the city.

Budapest  is divided in two parts, Buda and Pest. We start to go to the Buda Castle (Budai Vár in Hungarian) then we went down to visit the Pest part of the city with Heroes' square (Hősök tere) taking the Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Széchenyi-Lánchíd).
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Europe tour Interail 2006 : Romania or train, train, train

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After our visit of Košice, we took our next train to Bucharest in Romania. Due to lack of planning, not noticing the jet lag and not really planning our visit of the city we arrived in Bucharest's train station a bit lost. We walked around a bit but the only thing that we ended up being told (my Romanian is really poor) is that we should walk to Constanta which is another city really far away. So we decided to eat a pizza in the train station and to take the next train to Sighişoara. Sighişoara is the city of Dracula. We walked there at night seeing the places where he was bitting his victims. You all know how I like vampires' stories, I was really happy to be there. We then waited for the train that was supposed to get us more west.
I really hope to be able to go back to Romania some days to see the country more in details.
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Europe tour Interail 2006 : Košice

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We spend another night in the train, during this travel this is going to become an habit. We went through Eastern Slovakia to reach our new destination of the second day, Košice. Our little routine started : find how to go to our next destination, get a shower, some breakfast, a map of the city, a place to leave our bags (well not this time) and go to walk around for our visit.
Košice is the 2^nd largest city of Slovakia after Bratislava the main city, even though it didn't look that big. It was a Sunday so the city was really calm, a lot of people were at the church. One interesting thing in this city was the fountain that follow the music.
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神風怪盗ジャンヌ (Kamikaze kaitou jeanne)

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神風怪盗ジャンヌ (Kamikaze kaitou jeanne) is a anime from the fantasy shōjo manga series by Arina Tanemura that was released in 1999. It is two parts the first part counts 27 episodes when the second one counts 17.

The story is about a high school girl, Kasukabe Mason who discover that she is the reincarnation of Jeanne d'arc. Jeanne d'arc is a figure of French history, in the 15th century, France had been invaded by the English and a peasant girl, Jeanne, decided to rise against the invader and to throw them of the country believing that she is carrying the will of god. She will lead the French into victory during the Hundred Years' War and succeed to help Charles VII to the throne of France. However, she will be captured and sold to the English and be judged and burn alive at the stake.
So Maron has an angel to help her steal beautiful object that have been possessed by the demon, she call the power of Jeanne d'arc and transform to be able to steal them without giving away her Maron identity. Her best friend, Todaiji Miyako is the daughter of the policeman in charge of arresting Jeanne and would do anything to help her father. The next neighbor Nagoya Chiaki is also a thief, friend or enemy, that is the main question.



In this anime, things turns a lot around the relationship between the characters and how their respective past is acting on them to lead to their present behavior. It's also funny. I like it.
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