Blogs from Slovakia, Europe - page 54

Day 36, 6th July. Bratislava - Dunajská Streda - Komárom (HUNGARY) We were all hungover badly, with little cash. Spent a lot of time hanging around the café drinking strong coffee and feeling very sorry for ourselves. Toby decided he wanted to go into the city to use the internet, the other two wanted to rest. So I decided to walk around to the naturist area on the other side of the lake and to sunburn my buns a little. We all set out after lunch and traveled along busy and confusing roads to try and find the little roads out of Bratislava. The traffic police eventually directed us onto a bike path (very rough) along the ‘Little Danube’ where we found the road we were looking for via Dunajská Streda. The area was flat with ... read more

Greetings blog readers....... This is getting very confusing.......I am sitting on a bench in front of the city hall in Bratislava.....a country that begins with "SL"and ends in "ia". Problem is, is it Slovakia, Slovenia or Slavonia? OK. it is Slovakia. I have just watched a long ceremony in front of thye Presidential Palace where I either expected Peter Sellers or Julie Andrews as Queen of Devonia to be standing outside, not the president ofthis country. Would you believe that they had majorettes doing a routine to the Colonel Bogey March in addition to the band, military drill team and an exercise by the commandos!!!! They say that Bratislava is the small cousin of Prague and they are right. Actually, this city of about half a million people has a squeekily clean and restored old town ... read more

Being McGogged means eating a hamburger bigger than your head, which I did (twice) at the Pohoda Music Festival in Trencin, Slovakia. And being really f**king unlucky means not having a working camera to capture all the good stuff, like The Stereo MC's, International Noise Conspiracy, The Frames, Coldcut, Chicks on Speed, The Pixies, Bajafondo Tango Club, and Golgol Bordello. And Mikey, the skinniest lil white boy in rock, bangin it out amongst the sweat soaked inebriates of the two front rows. Ten points for your devotion to Black Francis Mike - lucky no-one thinks you're gay. So, guess you'll just have to be content with my highly exaggerated stories and recollections that are so out of proportion they no longer even remotely resemble the truth. Or even parts of the truth. But I swear, I ... read more

So I am officially on my way back home, I’m just taking the scenic route. I said my farewells to Croatia on Sunday and headed north. To be honest I had grown quite attached to Zagreb, and it was a bit sad leaving. I believe that in my travels so far, Croats have been the friendliest bunch of people I have had the pleasure of coming across. I am also going to miss my “Zagreb Breakfast”, bijela kava (white coffee) and cherry strudel. I am currently basing myself in Vienna. The train ride up was a pleasant one if not a tad long about 6 hours in all. The scenery was great almost the whole way up, there were deer in many a Slovenian meadow and once we crossed over into Austria beautiful mountains and green ... read more

Geo: 48.1484, 17.1073Left camp nice and early this morning, once again the tent came down while I was still in it. I'm just not a morning person!! At around midday we arrived in Bratislava. We had 15 mins to look around the castle, which wasn't very impressive for a castle. Had an okay view of the city- lots of apartment blocks. We were given two hours free time in the city to lunch and sight see. By the time we changed our money to their currency and ate lunch, we only had enough time to window shop on the way back to the bus. Only a few more hours driving for the day until I get to set up tent in another mossie infected campsite!!... read more