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Published: June 26th 2011
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Central Bratislava is a beautiful place. This old house is a good example Celebrating Ake's 40th birthday
In March this year Ake turned 40. Since Ake isn't too happy about celebrating things in general and birthdays in particular Ake decided to go abroad on his 40th birthday. Even though Ake doesn't enjoy traditional celebrations he still thinks that turning 40 is a bit special and because of this he wanted to do something special on this day. This "something special" was to run Bratislava Half Marathon.
We spent two days in Bratislava. On Saturday we did traditional sightseeing and on Sunday we ran the race.
Bratislava looks much like many other cities in central Europe. Many cities in central Europe have beautiful stone houses from the 19th or early 20th century and so does Bratislava. Many cities in central Europe have old churches and so does Bratislava. Many cities in central Europe have a castle in the old town and so does Bratislava. Bratislava is a pleasant city and a nice place to visit but there is very little in the town that you can't see in many other cities and there isn't more of it than you can see the most important things in a day or two.
Well,
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Central Bratislava is a beautiful place. This house is a good example there is one thing that makes Bratislava stick out a little bit - the various statues that are scattered around town. They are both charming and interesting. The statues that we would like to mention here in the blog are the following:
• HC Andersen: The Danish author Hans Christian Andersen visited Bratislava in 1841. On one boulevard there is a statue of him. Note that there is a huge snail sitting between the author's legs. Why the snail is there is anyone's guess. Personally we think it would be much cooler if they had had a statue of another Andersen, or rather Anderson, namely
Thomas A Anderson from The Matrix.
• Cumil (or Man at Work): The statue is of a man, a worker, climbing out of a manhole in the street
• Napoleonic army soldier: The soldier leans onto the backrest of a bench
• Photographer: This statue stands outside a restaurant named Paparazzi.
• Skateboard Girls: There is in Bratislava a statue of two girls with a skateboard. That statue also works as a mailbox
• Schone Naci: This statue is of a man who used to walk up and down this street
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Central Bratislava is a beautiful place. This house is a good example in central Bratislava and greet everybody he met. He always had a big smile on his face and made many people happy. Inside he was a very sad person. When he was young he was dating a woman and they were planning on spending their lives together. One day his beloved was taken away to a Nazi concentration camp never to return again.
On Sunday we spent the better part of the day running. Emma finished in 1 hour 51 minutes and Ake needed 1 hour and 59 minutes. We are both proud of our results.
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Svante Kellner
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Grattis Åke
Hej Åke. Jaha ni är ute och reser igen. Visst är det skönt med sommarlov. Ni reser, jag syr kapell till mikn båt. Men även jag skall ut och resa. Den 5: juli bär det av till tyskland, till Trier för att cykla och dricka goda viner längs med mosel. Sedan blir det mest roslagen och mycket skärgård hoppas jag. Jag har skrivit på kontrakt för ett nytt år på St: Erik. Det blir skrämmande mycket nya ämnen. Mekatronik, Datorteknik 1a, Matematik, Servicekunskap och så var det något mer som jag inte minns just nu. Men nu tänker vi inte mer på det. Nu gäller sommarlov. Ha en bra sommar från Svante.