Ok so I haven’t exactly kept up with the blog. You see, I’ve had so much work and then I had Christmas break. I just haven’t had time to write. Well, as for my travels, I went to Bratislava and Vienna, then spent a weekend in Amsterdam and then spent two weeks home in Puerto Rico. About a month ago I was on my way to the airport with my friends Anna and Patrick to board our early morning flight to Bratislava, capital and biggest city in Slovakia. Every person we told, even a girl that was actually from Bratislava, questioned [View Full Entry]

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The Argentian born Sicilian sitting next to me just said something about that, so I thought that'd be a fun title for today. So I left off in Prague. The 2nd, we went to Prague Castle and wandered around, despite that fact that it was absolutely freezing. The first thing we saw was the Lobowitz musuem which is a musuem about the Lobowitz family. They were a family of princes in Prague for about 6 centuries and incredibly rich and powerful. Their musuem was interesting, just because they had Beethoven's original manuscripts for his 4th and 5th symphonies because one of [View Full Entry]

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Typical, 15 minutes outside Prague it was white all the way to Bratislava/Vienna. Painless bus trip and apart from the ugly nylon coats and large shoulder padded 80's coats that the people wear Bratislava was lovely. The historical centre is less preserved than Prague but that was actually kind of nice. [View Full Entry]

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Navnadil Vas titulok na pikantne citanie? ;-) V tom pripade sa uz rovno na zaciatku priznavam, ze nejde o nikaju pikanteriu ale len o dobre odkukany marketingovy tah slovenskeho bulvaru, pri ktorom nazov citatela navnadi na velke tajomstva a samotny clanok mu ukaze, ze sice titulok nebol uplne klamstvo, ale napriek tomu je to cele inak... Nalejme si teda cisteho vina... do odchodu ostava okolo 38 hodin a ja svoju velku cestu naozaj zacinam v posteli... s horuckou... nie vsak cestovnou ako by sa ocakavalo, ale so standardnou pliagou zimnych dni, od ktorej boli hlava a (ako zvykol hovorit moj brat [View Full Entry]

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Touched down at the Airport, cleared immigrations and collected baggage in a 15-minute period. Flight was full so there was a small crowd gathering near the luggage belts. No problems with baggages though, prompt and efficient. Asked the money changer for recommendations for getting to Bratislava and she commented that it would be good to take the bus instead, a sentiment echoed by the tourist information counter (they speak English). So off we went just outside of the terminal and waited for the 11.30 PostBus service which runs a daily roundtrip from Vienna to Bratislava Bus Station. Bus arrived punctually. Indeed, [View Full Entry]

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So I left Nottingham on a RyanAir flight to Bratislava. I had exhausted myself through nerves, but couldn't sleep on the plane. I sat next to this really cute little girl, but I couldn't understand a word she said. There were really low clouds, but once the plane got above them the stars and moon were beautiful. Looking down, I could see the lights from the ground below reflecting on the clouds. Then they turned on the cabin lights and ruined it all. Once in Bratislava, customs was really quick - they looked at my passport and waved me through. None [View Full Entry]

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Hi team Hope everyone back home is going well. I am fine thanks for asking. Me and Cat are now in Bratislava which is a lot better then what I was expecting. We have some time to fill in before Paris so though we would visit Slovakia. When we got here the weather was really nice (a sweltering 11 outside). Had a walk around the city which is really old and not touristy at all. Visited the castle which has an awesome view of the city. On every street there is a kebab stand. Think that I will turn into a [View Full Entry]

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It's been awhile since I have made a post. Honestly it's a combination of busyness, laziness, and a camera that ran out of batteries. No worries though, I'll catch all of you up right-quick now. I've been in Bratislava for two weeks to the day working on my final project. I've been following around a man named Marek Hojsik who is an expert on the subject I'm working on, and meeting many interesting people, and reading through a lot of information. However, that's the more mundane stuff that's not very exciting for you to hear about I'm sure. On Monday (Nov. [View Full Entry]

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I finished work on Friday at the airport and decided to go to the bus station on the way home from work. I had thought about going to Budapest but there were no tickets left. There WERE however, tickets left for Saturday, but the bus only went as far as Bratislava, but I bought them anyhow. My round-trip bus ticket was only 430krowns which is about 22dollars...so what a deal, right? I can't even fill my gas tank at home for $22. So I packed my Vodafone backpack and went to bed because my bus left the Florenc bus station at [View Full Entry]

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When you're away it's always interesting to see what from home makes the local news where you are. Last night while sitting around at the monkey replica watching the first bit of TV that I've seen for a few days there was a news story from Sydney, the Burmese democracy protest. There was also a news story on the little bit of neo-nazi civil unrest in Prague. But back to the monkey replica that I found to take in a bit of live music last night, the Jazz-Cafe, put a .sk on the end of that and you have their website. [View Full Entry]

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