Blogs from Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia, Europe - page 21

Tuesday February 27. Left Komano and followed the north bank of the Danube for about 50 kms before crossing the river at a Hungarian town with a very striking castle on a hill overlooking the river. Unfortunnately I didn't write down the name in my jounal. I must look it up. It is a sad fact that one day does so often merge into the next. I followed the bend of the Danube until I reached the suburbs and the traffic. The speed and aggression were unnerving. I saw a terrible accident with a red family car reduced to the size of a domestic fridge (see photograph) underneath a rather small lorry. I stayed the next two nights at the Papillon Hotel on the Buda side of the city, a very nice hotel on a steep ... read more

The Austrian Train system (called OBB) has a deal going through the month of March, were students can by train tickets to travel on Saturdays. You can go anywhere in the country all day long for only 11 euro. This is a great deal, and we more than utilized our 11 euro, as we were on almost 10 different trains on Saturday! While Austria is very beautiful, it also is part of the dark history along with Germany during the Second World War, as it was a part of Hitlers government. In the town of Mauthausen, in Upper Austria near Linz, the concentration camp was built in order to imprison not only Jewish communities, but also people who went against governments rule. Many people from Mauthausen came from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and areas in Austria. More ... read more

We arrived in Bratislava on an overnight train which arrived at 5am. Needless to say we were exhausted (European overnight trains don't offer the most comfortable sleeping conditions!), so we were slightly unimpressed that we couldn't check into our hostel until 1pm. However, we shook ourselves awake and headed into the City to see what we could find and actually managed to see most of the sites before lunchtime! The Old Town consists of smart, winding cobbled streets, lined with shops and cafes (none of which opened until 8am- grrr). There are some amazing buildings with decorated roofs and numerous squares with fountains. The castle is set up on a hill next to the river Danube. It is a fairly new looking building, having been renovated by the Communists, and the castle gardens offer quite memorable ... read more

hey chicks and dudes, hows it hanging today this kezboard is zet again verz verz messed up. theres like 4 characters on everz button so i gotta use alt and shift and alt gr and ctrl but im not gonna coy that would be time consuming and i onlz have 3 hours to wait for mz train so as zou can see i reallz am rushed off me feet. haha funnz funnz todaz i am. NOT. searched ALL daz for trains hostels and ski resorts and couldnt find jack because its new zears and its a national holidaz in slovakia. websites arent running properlz or nought. cudnt even fone coy i didnt have á fone card coy evcerzthzbgs gloesd. got me mega pissed off plus PMT aint a good combo. so i just came to the ... read more

Being sick sucks. We had a single full day here, which i spent in bed. I ventured out once at night to get food, it was quite scary. Speedy and Captain CB tell me the locals here are nice, real nice. The next morning, New Years eve, we boarded a train to Prague to party. I was reminded why I like train journeys so much as we glided peacefully through the snowtouched countryside to our destination.... read more