http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Slovakia , Bratislava en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:48:13 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:48:13 BST Our final Danube city after another four hour hydrofoil ride was Bratislava. After Vienna and Budapest it had a distinctly 'after the LordMayor's show' feel about it....but once we got under the skin of the place it certainly had character. No where on this trip was the old soviet era more evident in the concrete tower blocks and factory chimneys although the Historic Centre has had a bundle of http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-298433.html Oh dear I'm very sorry Slovakia but you were just a bit... safe. It's a real shame but the torusithoards have well and truly infested nicebutsmall Bratislava feeding on the charm it may have once had. It wasn't horible but did not stand out and mundane is the last thing you want from your travels.Sooo how did I get there Well the answer is my first ever night train. And I was aprehensive http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-298129.html Yes it finally happened we prebooked our accomodation in Bratislava in university housing that was being rented out for the summer to tourists. We thought it would be an experience and it was really cheap with 7 euros a night getting us our own room.We arrived at the accomodation and the building was massive there was probably well over 2000 rooms and the rooms were really nice with new bathroo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-297057.html Yesterday was a scorcher. Woke up late 12 and went to the castel which we actually got into. Due to reconstruction we couldnt get that great of a picture of the castle. Also stole a rock which was a piece of the castleHeaded back to the room then out for some actual Slovakian Food. Amazing. Had Hen's Soup and pork medalions in a mushroom sauce with boiled potatoes and a 05L beer all for le http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-295342.html Last night we went on a pub crawl after checking into the hotel and putting our stuff down. We started at the American speaking 'Slovak Pub' then headed to the Film Cafe which has movie posters covering the walls but they are all in Slovakian so naming the movies turned into a game. Home Alone 2 The Mummy Legally Blonde Terminator and a bunch of others. They also had a few of those big movie http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-295336.html Today we packed up got some cold cuts cheese and bread from Billa Supermarket and took a trolley to the station. But OF COURSE with our luck in matters of public transportation the train is late by 90 minutes even though the next train is 83 minutes after this one but that one is late too and changed platforms. Changing platforms is not all that bad IF you know they changed the platforms. We http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-292443.html We arrived in Bratislava late enough from Vienna. The train station was a lot smaller then the others we had been to. The only perceptions I had of the place were the ever so dark and gloomy ones I got from watching the film Hostel In the film the director Tarrentino perceives the place to be a dangerous city in which the locals kill off any tourists one by one. Within a few hours though of b http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-291186.html Bratislava feels like a Sunday everyday not because its relaxing and you don't have to work because let's face it when you've been travelling for as long as we have everyday is a weekend. No nothing is ever openWe arrived in Bratislava two years too late to get the really cheap eastern europe prices. But still the old city was pretty and there was a fair bit of sightseeing to be done. We http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-289624.html Bratislava is one of those cities that people simply reject off hand case in point when I was in Vienna 3 years ago there were 3 Swedish guys who wanted to take the bus to Bratislava for the day and everyone asked why their reason EuroTrip the movie where the 4 Americans live like kings in the city for pennies. Now to be fair there is not a whole lot in the city but it is worth the vis http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-286561.html Sylvia's dad drove Joyce Sylvia and I to Bratislava for the day while he was in meetings. We spent the day walking around the Old Town. We started at the President's palace and took a bus up to the hill where the castle is located. Unfortunately it is being remodeled it was burned in the 1800s and has never been fully restored. We walked down from the castle to the original part of Bratisl http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-285565.html Hi everyone Nosdrove is what you should say as Cheers in Slovakia but my friend Kathy always says Nice driving eh because she can't pronounce it... This is some of the fun we are having after being together on the tour for the past week and a half. We arrived here in Bratislava today in southern Slovakia after taking 3 trains one of which was a very local train that was standing room only. W http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-284483.html This trip was early in November. The Aberdeen guys went through Amsterdam then onto Vienna.They then had a short bus trip over the border to Slovakia where they hooked up with The Lithgae Lads who had taken the a flight from Edinburgh to Pargue where they stayed overnight. They then took the train into Bratislava the following morning.This was our first venture into Eastern Europe where we found i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-262481.html Yeah so looks like I'm in Bratislava now pretty knackered and about to go to sleep. But I thought I should finally get my ass up and write something on this thing.The trip to Gdansk was rather bizarre...first I was standing with the other pathetic passengers in a giant queue on Hahn airport waiting to board. They wouldn't even make an announcement it was pretty frustrating just standing there http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-261729.html ....and welcome to the land of no vowels spotless streets beautiful buildings and 24 hour partyingIve been attempting a whistle stop tour of Slovakia Poland and Austria and spent a few err...strange hours in the Czech Republic tooAdmittedly its been a few years since ive had the pleasure of experiencing the open road and going wherever fate takes me Some things change but unfortunately so http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-254646.html Bratislava... It was here that I decided I needed to find a Slovakian wife. Why Well let me tell you. We got into Bratislava and walked down the historical district towards our hostel. It was quite nice and we took out some Slovakian krowns which ended up being 45 and that lasted us the entire trip We got to the hostel and messed around a bit on the computer and played some foosball. We went ou http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-251408.html Bratislava http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-239744.html Bratislava http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-239727.html Ok so I havenrsquot exactly kept up with the blog. You see Irsquove had so much work and then I had Christmas break. I just havenrsquot 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-234659.html Well i have spent the last day and a half in Bratislava Slovakia. Was really looking forward to coming here was caught up in the Hostel jive but really its just another European city with trams trains and busy moving people. Vikki got this morning free so am going to try to find that tower did see one that looked similar yesterday when i was at the castle Oh yes what European city doesnt http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-233959.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-233766.html Typical 15 minutes outside Prague it was white all the way to BratislavaVienna. 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. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-233158.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-231937.html Touched down at the Airport cleared immigrations and collected baggage in a 15minute 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 inf http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-231083.html 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 cloud http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-229080.html Hi teamHope 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 whic http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-224820.html Yesterday on the train from Budapest to Vienna there was a group of 20something Hungarians who must have been going away for the long weekend. They were well into the celebrations before they even got on the train and they were well stocked up with booze for the three hour train journey. One of them brought his cigarette onto the nonsmoking train as Europeans tend to do and when he leaned http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-223918.html 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 roundtrip bus ticket was only 430krowns which is about 22dollars...so what a deal right I can't even http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-222785.html 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 rightquick 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 interest http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-222532.html Our stay was brief and we will be honest with you there wasn't that much to see That doesn't include the mess we got into which wasn't our fault over where we were staying.Having booked our hostel the night before we arrived to find them fully booked having not being told by the booking sight so we had to slum it round the corner. All they seem to do here is eat and drink so as it was cold http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-219105.html 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 neonazi civil unrest in Prague.But back to the monkey replica that I fo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-218715.html