Acc-Nifos Baronka Hotel Bratislava

... arriving, so we finally met up and went to her apartment, where I met her boyfriend, who was really nice as well.<br><br>We hung out for a bit, playing some guitar and talking, and then went out in the freeeezing weather to a small bar with some live rock cover band playing. We had a couple of beers and went home a bit later.<br><br>Then this morning, they went to work, and I left around 11:30am or so, trying to wait out ...

... resembling it so we went to a shop to see if they could help us. They didn't speak any English but got the gist of what we were looking for and shook their heads and said "No, centrum". Frustrated that we could catch a tram to the centre of town without a ticket but couldn't get a ticket without local money, we stood at the doorway of the station and tried to work out what on earth we were going to do. The few people around the station just stared at us or totally ...

... neither Katie nor I had spent Spring Break somewhere where the weather was drastically warmer than home! - One interesting thing is that you can't see the Danube, which makes the city drastically different from Budapest, which used both sides. We knew we were still on the river, but the city was set distinctly apart from it. - There were these Tim Burton-type characters all over!! Awesome. April 10- Good Friday- After grabbing ...

... a dinner crepe, a cappucino, a dessert crepe... Yum!!!!! the funniest part of the evening was that the waitress spoke French! I hadn't up to then met a Slovak who spoke French - mostly German or English as second languages. So I broke out my best Parisian French and was able to order. It was an interesting end to a lovely country... Okay, so that wasn't the end of the country... I did manage one more amazing success. I got rid of all of my Slovak money - yay me!!!

... folks, that kinda ****. anyway, our hostel was pretty cool, there was no sadomasacistic chicks waitin for me in pvc to shove an aubergine up my bum and slap me about with a spatula, or watva happened in the film, instead we got a sweet lass in a cosy little bar area who was terribly pleasant and courteous towards us. bratislava itself is another coutry that was dominated by the soviets behind the iron curtain pretty much since the end of ...

... we actually got was delicious anyway so Hey! C'est la vie! In Bratislava all day tomorrow and then potentially going to teh High Tatras Saturday... we'll see! I am having the time of my life so far though. Met loads of wonderful people already and seen some beautiful places... Who knows what tomorrow will bring??? Love n Laughter! Phill x

A je to! Mame za sebou dalsi rok cestovania. Je predo mnou posledny let tento rok. Nalodit sa na lietadlo v San Diegu a cez Chicago a Mnichov rovno do Blavy kde budem uz nedockavo cakat koniec vianoc, lebo to bude pre mna znamenat opat sa po vyse mesiaci vidiet so Stankou na viac ako 2 hodiny! Hold, obcas sme si vzacnejsi ako by sme predpokladali. :-) Minule sme oslavovali to, ze sme v tom istom casovom pasme - Stanka bola v Kodani a ja na letisku vo Frankfurte ...

... the block of the Hotel a bit. Seems the Hotel is located a bit outside the city center but convieniently close to the airport. My first experience with the public transport system (tram lines) wasn't to good. Never thought that there could be more then one line...so I just ended up in this industrial quarter at the middle of the evening....**** it was dark and ...

... laid at a club serving Absinthe. This is only partially an exaggeration. There is an old town typical of "old towns" throughout Europe. Old buildings on narrow streets, interspersed with palaces, churches, plazas with cafes and restaurants in cellars, set on a river (the brown, not blue, Danube, downstream from Vienna), overlooked by a castle on the hill. Outside the old town, new construction competes with blocks of 60's style bureaucratic edifices, and across the ...

... Nobody could speak another language so we were a bit unsure about what the problem was. After much discussion, confusion, a phone call and another two cups of coffee one of her friends arrived in a car. Franz was beckoned over into the car on off they drove. I finished off the soup and talked to the lady by playing a game of pictonary, pointing to parts of the map to try and understand what the problem was with the route we had ...