Heading to the great Unknown, Ukraine here I come

So Thuesday I took the train to Budapest together with the English (John, Mike, Lewis, Hanna and Helen) Jumped on the train of 22:30, I had a seat on the train (because of my budget) the others sleped in beds. Met two mexicans who told me some nice stories about there Hospitality Club experiences and how they really could stay on their budget. Hospitality Club.org is a site where people offer accommodation for travellers, it's a safe way to stay in houses of locals and they can show you around town aswell. It's mostly travellers who offer their house and I'm already a member for alomst a year now.
Had a good night rest because I was able to sleep on multiple chairs. Arrived in Budapest around 9 in the morning, I tried to dodge off all the people who want to sell me a bed in there hostel. Finally found the cheapest hostel in town for around 8 euro's a night. Stayed on the 7th floor of a big hostel in Pest (BudaPest is defided in two parts Buda & Pest), did my laundry and walked around town visiting some sights; Castle Hill, Basilica and Heroes Square. I think I walked more then 20 km that day, arrived back around 19:00. Budapest is a nice but big city not extremly filled with tourists yet but I did see allot of Dutch people, it's actually quite expensive here in the city I expected it to be cheaper here in Hungary.
Listened to some music that night with 2 german skaters in my dorm room.
Next day I met up with the english at the Basilica at 13 oclock, in my way to the big church I bought a Lonely Planet about Ukraine. So now I just have to go, right?
After meeting up with them we walked to one of the thermal baths, Budapest is famous for. Chilled for two hours in the hot open air 37/38° degrees baths, sounds insane huh when it's 30 degrees outside. Went to the sauna and the normal swimming pool.
In my way back to the hostel I passed by the train station, first I checked the internet if there were any people offering accomodation on Hospitality Club in Kiev (the capital of Ukraine). After finding allot of places where I could stay in Kiev I decided to get a trainticket to Kiev for the 29th of July, a 26 hour train ride and this time I have a bed; alright!!
That night climped up to the Citadel (a big hill in the city with a big statue) with the english guys had some cheap supermarket beers and went to a festival close by the city called Pardon. This is sort of the longest summer festival but was really quite small, met some nice hungarian people.
Friday I woke up pretty late and sended a sms to Lewis that it would be better if we met at 15 oclock instead of the planned 14:00. In my way to meet them I bought a Ukrainian phrasebook at the same store I bought the LP, because I notice that the local people really appreciate it when you try to speak in there native language. And in the Ukraine they hardly speak English.
When I was waiting for them at the Basilica on a bench a group of 15 Taiwanese students started talking to me. I thought that they wanted me to take a picture of them but they wanted a picture of me with them on the bench. So after a few pictures from different camera's I asked why they wanted a picture of me. They said "Because you are hansom'', well cool, I thought! Later on went to a Statuepark with statues of Lenin and Stalin, had to take the subway and 2 busses to get there. Wasn't really that big as we expected. Said goodbye to the english (and scotish, sorry Mike) Was cool to travel with you guys, hope you have a save trip and see you in the future in York.
Cooked some corn for dinner and packed my bag.
Today I have spend my time reading and waiting for my train, it departs at 18:20. I'm really looking forward to go to the Ukraine, I heard some amazing stories about it and very few tourists. And really cheap for travelling and food, accomodation is still expensive but if I can stay with people througout Ukraine it will hardly cost me anything. I'm planning to stay for about 3 weeks in Ukraine and then head back home.

So wish me look on my 26 hours train ride and my journey in the former sovyet parts of Europe.

Si-Ah!