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Published: November 26th 2007
Bratislava
Here's the view from the castle. Not as impressive as Prague...but still nice.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 6AM. When I say "packed" my backpack, I mean I filled it with food. I decided to see if I could do the entire day trip for under 600 krowns. Which left me with about 170kc to spend on food. So i went to Tesco and got a bunch of bread and apples, both of which are dirt cheap.
Bratislava was small, and freezing cold. Definitely not as sexy as Prague, but the people were nicer. I saw all the "major sights" in about 2 hours, but I had about 7 hours to kill before my bus left.
Bratislava Street
Old town Bratislava...so cold So I was looking through my guidebook and noticed how close Bratislava was to Hungary...so I found the public station, and took one out of the city, towards Hungary. I got off the bus in the middle of nowhere...not even close to Hungary. I finally found a woman who spoke a little Czech and she told me to get back on the bus and then walk 4km to the border.
I ended up walking about 8km in the freezing cold, along a pretty big highway...there isn't exactly a sidewalk that leads to Hungary. It looked a lot like the border between Vermont and Canada...lots of nothing...just fields and snow.
I got to the border and walked across as if I were a car. The woman looked at me like I was crazy, but she stamped my passport anyhow. I got into Hungary, and realized there was no town, no nothing, for another 2km, so I turned around and started walking back to my Slovakian bus stop...
This is why I travel alone...because none of my friends would ever let me do something stupid like that if they were with me...
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