always paddle your own canoe!!!
I have been trying to make sure that I know when and wher eI am going, even if I am travelling in a group. In budapest however I handed over some of that responsability and at came back to bite me a little. For one day I followed. I let someone else make the decisons about trams and buses and I didnt double check. Everything went smoothly as this peticular person knew what they were doing. However, the following day when we parted ways at the bottom of a hill in budapest and I was left on my own to find my way back to the hostle I realised that I hdidnt even know what the hostle was called! I took tow trams in the wrong dirrection (ran into the officer that had ticketed us that morning for not having tickets!!!) walked for half an hour, contemplated taking a taxi ('yes could you take me to the hostle by the shell station.... i dont think that would have worked very well) In the end i found a familiar tram, made it back to the hostle and to the bus station in time for my bus. But now I know even though we should trust others and work together, one should always gather all of the information they need for themselves! (as Tanya always says when she get into an unknown situation... I should have asked more questions!)
So yeah... paddle your own canoe!