The big metropolitan boy is alone in the city.

I am alone. Abandoned.
Nobody here but me.. out of the group of five I mean. One has gone to meet his girlfriend in Barcelona. Three are hanging about Vienna as this is written. Everyone left early this morning, and left me here alone.
It was agreed upon, however.. I have made the decision not to travel much this month. Why? Because I have to respect the impairs of my otherwise capable nature. I am not good at figuring out anything to do with numbers in my head. Maths, even simple maths, tend to confuse me. And here I am, in a foreign country with a foreign currency. I have gotten used to sensing my financing in the form of pounds. That is, understanding the amount of my base currency - ISK - in each pound - GBP. Confusing enough, but after a year at it my sense for it has gradually heightened.
Now, here.. in this lovely place.. I have to sense my base financial status, by filtering the local currency - SKK - through GBP back into ISK. It is enough to drive me mad..
So, as a result while I am trying to be careful with my money I have a hard time sensing where I stand accurately. Thus, I have decided to give it the first month before I start risking the cost of travel.
After the first month perhaps I will have gotten my head around my expenses.

While I am living in the centre of Europe I am going to use the opportunity and travel to such places as Austria (only 45 minutes by bus), Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia (hopefully.. it can be a bit complicated to arrange everything for that - one needs to be invited into the country apparently). My original wildest fantasy was also to go all the way over to Romania, but I have been warned not to go there from here. So, the time for that will come later I guess.

My landlord here complicated things for me even further last week when she asked for the rent money to be paid in Euros. For crying out loud... I tried dealing with that earlier today.. not completely successfully. I got less money than I need, even though I went into a bank and asked for all the help I could possibly ask for.
There is no real support for the mathematically impaired. We are alone in the world, with not a number to rely on.

Crosseyed and confused,
..kH