St Michael's Gate

Brief escape from Austria

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July 13th 2008
After realising that Bratislava was only an hour from Vienna on the train, it became obvious that being so close to another country without visiting was something that I would seriously regret once this holiday was over. And so it was that we found our time in Vienna to be shortened by a brief trip over the border into Slovakia :o) We had originally decided that we were going to get the 8:30am ... read more

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In 1918 the Slovaks joined the closely related Czechs to form Czechoslovakia. Following the chaos of World War II, Czechoslovakia became a Communist nation within Soviet-ruled Eastern Europe. Soviet influence collapsed in 1989 and Czechoslovakia once... ... read more