29.09.09 After Music Club Budapest, Hungary

It was a long drive from our Polish adventure to our next show in Budapest, so we stopped en route in the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague. It was the first time we'd seen more of a country than the inside of a hotel room, a petrol station or an autobahn, and it was beautiful. We've even got photographic proof.

We arrived in Budapest unsure of how we'd be received in Hungary. What a surprise to find one of the most excited and enthusiastic crowds of the tour, all crowded in to yet another underground venue (we seem to be touring all the bunkers and caves of Europe this year). It has been amazing to play to audiences like the one in Budapest who are happy to have darkwave bands playing in their city at all.

We were entirely exhausted after the long drive and the gig, so we unfortunately had to leave the club night after the show and head for our hotel. Even more sadly, we farewelled our sound engineer, Thomas, in Budapest, as he had to head back to Belgium.

And so we set off in the van minus Thomas's talents and translation skills to our final two gigs in Dornbirn, Austria (at the Judgement Day Festival) and Rome, Italy.