Blogs from Slovakia, Europe - page 5

The free walking tour didn't start until 11 am, which was nice and late. This meant that I could have a relatively lazy morning. I made my way to the Old Town for the start of the tour, but I managed to get lost, prominent street names are not Bratislava's forte, China has definitely spoilt me in this respect. I thought I was going to miss the tour as I wandered the streets trying to right myself and find the meeting place. I made it there, only about five minutes late, and saw quite a group of people. This part of Europe is definitely busier. My first impressions of the Old Town of Bratislava was that it was really cute and quite a lot busier than the places I had just been, which is understandable as ... read more

Todo fue idea de Borjita, como iba a Eslovenia va y me dice que cree que Melania es eslovena y me busca el pueblo de donde viene. No esta totalmente en la ruta pero al Borja no le voy a decir que no. Bueno, he tenido que cruzar unos montes que no tenía pensado cruzar pero ya estoy en Sevnica, el pueblo de Melania. Me esperaba encontrar la estatua en la plaza del pueblo, o al menos frente a la estación de ferrocarril. Pues no, hay estatuas pero de héroes soviéticos, una gran fabrica de filiburcios, y cero Melania. Preguntando al final me entero, como 3 km por el carril bici al este (que ultraje no?). Pues donde dicen 3 mejor cuenta 11. Al final preguntando mas y consultando google se encuentra. Esta a 11 kilómetros ... read more

Tento trip trval skoro pol roka a asi by som to rozdelil na dve casti, na vychod a na zapad. Vychod, filipiny, indonezia, malajzia a zapad ostatok. Obe casti su diametralne odlisne. Na vychode som vedel do coho idem, na zapade ma cakalo nezname prostredie. Vychodnu cast vo velkom ovplyvnili moje zdravotne problemy takze som si to nemohol uzit naplno, co bolo velmi na skodu, hlavne filipiny a cast mindanao kde clovek spocita turistov na dvoch rukach. Tam sa isto este musim vratit vdaka fajn cs babam a hlavne ma laka okolie general santos. Indonezske regiony (sumatra, severne moluky) moc neprekvapili, skor by som povedal, ze citim mensie sklamanie. I ked treba povedat, ze na molukach mi absolutne nevyslo pocasie. spodna cast bornea bola fajn i vdaka fajn ludom z ubytka a np bako. Penang bohuzial ... read more

Day 104, 07.07.19. Sunday. Been having trouble coping with the fact that most people here aren't friendly at all, the overwhelming majority is staring me down whenever I enter some place or just walk along the streets of Bardejov. I think it's because I look like an immigrant, it's even worse than Norway even though I didn't expect that at all. One of the first days I came to a place called Bardejovske Kupele, to visit the ancient forest here, I had a staring competition with a dude that must have been at least 80 years old, I won after we stared at each other for at least 15 seconds. Absolutely ridiculus! And this mentality is also making me quite irritable at times. It's not that they're staring at me because they're curious, oh no! They ... read more

After the night on the bus; leaving wet Krakow at midnight we arrived in Bratislava to sun at 7 am. Our airbnb was a short walk from the bus station and we were invited to check in before our host went out at 8.30 am, eventhough her official checkin time was 4pm. This allowed us to recover from the overnight before going out to explore. She was 60 and lived in a huge, very stylish apartment with high ceilings. We later found that she had many stories to tell and we learnt how it was for her to live here under Soviet occupation. Her brother had escaped 2 years before independence and it resulted in her father getting a demotion and losing his and the rest of the family's travel privelages that had come with his ... read more