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- Bratislava
- Capital
- Slovak Koruna (SKK)
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- 5,414,937
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Bratislava Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Bratislava, Slovakia
On the Ropes
This is a top pick! ... , but the basic forms seemed to have remained the same over the centuries. From the castle, we went downhill to Bratislava's historic area. It had a smattering of Historicist architecture and many churches. It may have been the least interesting capital ...
Bratislava
This is a top pick! ... able to point out that it waw the Sydney Swans playing. After class everyone mingled for a bit then I was off on the first bus to Bratislava with Oleksandr, the Ukrainian who'll be helping me find my way by bus and train and bus to L'viv. One of the ...
Bratislava by Bus
This is a top pick! ... on decorative clocks. The big fact I got out of the trip was that at one time half of the clock-makers in Slovakia were working in Bratislava, but that wasn't a big surprise as most of the rest of the cities seem relatively small and there weren't that ...
Slav
This is a top pick! ... !! The border control guys weren't exactly thorough, a quick glance at the front cover of my passport was sufficient for them. Bratislava is in an unusual place for a capital city - right in the South West of the country, and close to borders with ...
a German turtle
This is a top pick! ... store, while Marcin was staying with our backpacks. Trying to continue the escape before the rain, we would take a train to Bratislava. This time we were just watching the city`s railway station. We were sitting there at the stairs, observing people ...
Last day in Bratislava
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; To build the bridge they had to knock down a heap of old buildings, and also the old Jewish synagogue, what the strut??! Bratislava does have a lot of pavement cafes and bars, so if you like people watching then this would be a good place for ...
Bratislava
This is a top pick! ... home after two years with the peace Corps in Romania. We compared photographs, tales of travelling and maybe solved some of the world's problems over a bottle of beer. If you want to see Bratislava before everyone discovers how fine it is, go ...
Not Like the Movies
This is a top pick! ... from Playboy, who I believe was supplying chunks of the crowd with free magazines. If nothing else I enjoyed the irony as much as I enjoyed the day. So even though Eurotrip says that Bratislava can be "wery depressing," I found it be a fine little ...
Eastern European Word Games
This is a top pick! ... was being raised. In no time we were speeding down the river in the slender tube-like, glass enclosed hovercraft, heading for Bratislava, Slovakia, Ellen's ancestral homeland. Hiro and I were the only smokers on-board it seemed - banished to the cold, ...
Bratislava connects with Bosham
This is a top pick! ... on our guard as we move on. The afternoon was a real day off, wnadering around the beautifully relaxed and compact Bratislava. A heavenly internet cafe provided chance to skype our buddies from Williams Road. We had been well prepared by a ...
Bratislava - Hydrofoil Trip.
This is a top pick! Looking at the map while in Vienna we could see that Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia was very close and what the hell we should make the effort to visit. We went there by hydrofoil, down the Danube River, on a beautiful warm sunny day. The trip ...
Miserable City
This is a top pick! ... looking bored stiff - they must have been there for a week or so. Then once over the border and approaching Bratislava we found a miserable jobs worth petrol pump attendant and loads of communist style anonymous housing blocks of flats. The centre of ...
onward to bratislava
This is a top pick! ... telltale graffiti in places, some run down buildings, but mostly is very beautiful and relatively clean. Really a stunning city. Bratislava, though, covered in graffiti. There are still nice areas, along the Danube and the downtown looked nice from my ...
Exploring an eastern european country in ...
This is a top pick! ... an Eastern European country in the company of two hard-core evangelical conspiracy-theorists is a lesson in tolerance. Bratislava, the captial of Slovakia, is still coming to terms with backpacker tourism. Budget accomodation is in short supply, so when ...
Bratislava
This is a top pick! ... at 7am. I am getting used to these early and late night travel times. It was a 3-hour bus ride from Budapest to Bratislava the capital of Slovakia and once again I let my first impressions get the better of me. After thinking 'what a dump'. But of course ...
Adrians Birthday in Bratislava
This is a top pick! ... cold), cake and champers she piled up with shoes, chocolates, beauty products... It snowed pretty much the whole time we were in Bratislava, which makes a pretty place prettier in my view and leads to snow jumping, snow fights, snow men etc. Lots of ...
Confooosed by the Danooobe
This is a top pick! ... long bridge. We crossed the border into Slovakia, we immediately noticed the difference, a much less developed place. Entering Bratislava was very mellow, the decision however to press on to a campsite on the other side of the city was a ...
Not practically neighbours with Berlin
This is a top pick! ... in hostels after two weeks of luxurious but boring hotels. But this place is more like a house, and everyone is really friendly. Bratislava doesn't actually have a whole lot to see or do, but it's been great just chilling out and relaxing here for a ...
Bratislava
This is a top pick! ... which gave it a completely different feel. We visited the St Martins Cathedral, Grassalkovich Palace, Church of Holy Trinity and Bratislava Castle sitting above of the city. The Christmas decorations that had gone up and heaps of festive markets helped ...
Slovakia
This is a top pick! I took a bus from Prague, Czech Republic to Bratislava, Slovakia merely because I saw a flyer advertising cheap bus rides for the bargain price of 9 euro. It actually ended up being 13 plus 1 euro for my backpack but still a reasonably cheap ride to ...
Wide Open
... leave and go onward. It's a day trip from Vienna on the pathway between Prague and Budapest often. I feel sorry for them because Bratislava still has a lot to discover and the people here are so friendly. I've spend about twenty-four hours here and I've ...
The Slav!
One of the guys from work, Sean, was due to get married later in the year, so a big group of us headed off to Bratislava for the Stag weekend. Unfortunitely due to the Law of the Stag, I can't mention anything that went on during the weekend. ...
Bratislava
Not a lot to report from here. I was told that it would only take me the afternoon to see this city and that was pretty accurate. After a few hours walking we had seen the old town, visited the Christmas markets and covered the Castle district. The ...
Awesome Road Trip
... extremely expensive visits to Cannes and Venice, I decided it would be better to just continue on to my next destination, Bratislava, Slovakia. As I officially crossed the border into Slovakia, I couldn't help but remember the last time I was there when ...
a day trip to Slovakia
My new buddy, Christine, surprised me with a day trip to Slovakia...it was a beautiful day! And another amazing country to add to my ...
Bratislava - Day 1
... than last time. The whole of the front of the building has been repainted making it look alot less grotty! We arrived in Bratislava at 18:00 after a very comfortable flight; the plane was quiet and there was loads of leg room and no turbulence - ...
Back in the motherland
... it was time for me to get my things together and fly to Slovakia. Since I had 12 hours between my flight back from Bratislava to London, Zuzi and Petra kindly offered to pick me up from the Standsted airport (there are 4 in “London” and ...
Bratislava and some Vienna Adventures
... Greyhound-like buses). The town itself is actually quite nice as well. I think we were keeping our expectations low, but Bratislava is more developed and tourist friendly than we had expected ... we were pleasantly surprised! One of the main attractions ...
Bratislava
... German with some key people, as the shop assistants and the railway employee who sold us the tickets to come back. The best of Bratislava for us, the area around the Donau, the tree in the main square (Hlavné Námestie?), and the marionette that we ...