Aston Business Hotel Bratislava

... attractive. <br><br>I am the only one in the cabin. As we head South and to higher elevation, the snow gets deeper. The train is way behind schedule and I get concerned about my connection. Not much I can do. A couple hours into my ride, the conductor approaches me, shakes his head and indicates a bus. I look outside and we appear to be retracing. The train indicated Zilian as the terminating stop, my online ...

... dryers. And sorry in advance for any mispellings or bad grammar. I´m trying to type English on a Slovakian keyboard. I found myself constantly thinking "Alright... now how do I manifest this machine?" Anyway I´m sure I´ll get used to European lifestyle because I´m definately having an amazing time.

... n kop chocomel over een zwerf-vrouwtje heen! Ow, en we werden op het station nog aangezien voor babysitters: een vrouw vroeg of we even op haar drie koters konden passen, geen probleem dat we geen Slowaaks spraken.. Toen ze terugkwam, kwam ze dr achter dat we Hollanders waren, en bleek ze vloeiend Belgs te spreken.. It's a small world.. Trouwens, voor een volledig fotoverslag van de gehele reis, zie http://picasaweb.google.com/jannyramake rs/Italie2009#

... drinks we headed up to the castle. The regular price of SK 130 was papered over with a hand printed notice saying the price was SK 40. Probably this was because we were now in "low season". However it also meant that the displays in the castle would not be open. The castle was situated on a promontory at the confluence of the Danube and Morava rivers, and the views were great from the top. Throughout the site there were informational signs about the history and ...

... a lot of porn has been filmed there. Here is a surprise. I am not as agile as I used to be, but I managed not to hurt myself too severely. All in all Bratislava was tops. I am supposed to be seeing Katka and Ivana Uberlova in AMsterdam for New years but we'll see how it goes. So we hit a midget sex show (rodeos are banned in Bratislava since 1872, but it still involved several bulls and midgets being injured, just in a different way) and made our way to the train to Budapest.

After our initial trial here, trying to break a 1000Sk note, we finally managed to get some change and ring Matt's dad, so he could show us where we were staying. He picked us up, and it turned out we had a whole flat to ourselves in the heart of the Old Town, which he duly showed us around. It was in the middle of a renovation though, so there was no kitchen sink, and we couldn't get the shower to run hot, but only minor things really. We crashed until Matt arrived ...

... the thought of the movie Hostel was ringing in my mind, even though I haven't seen the film. While I wasn't killed by a crazed axe murderer, I did get bitten a hell of a lot by bed bugs, however, as I was not the only one, the hostel did agree to move us all to another dorm, although not before blaming us for apparently bringing the damm things in. Walked around for a bit of the day, tried the garlic soup, which is supposedly a ...

... door to meeting him and the girl he was with. The goal of every traveler (at least the ones after more than just trying to get drunk in different countries) is to have meaningful interactions with the locals, and that's exactly what I got from talking to George and Kika. George had spent three years studying in Sydney, so we immediately had a common bond to make conversation. The talk quickly moved on to other topics, things that helped me get a better insight ...

... the Kevin Spacek/Haley Joel Osborne movie called "Pay It Forward." It's not a great analogy, but the ideas are forever related in my mind. In "Pay It Forward," Osborne's character devises a school project to do 3 deeds for others, and that they will hopefully do 3 good deeds, etc. . This Ponzi scheme of karma (and how ass-backwards is that?) is called "paying it forward." "Pushing It Forward" is the idea at always take a dump when you can. Call it constantly advancing the ...

... 23.30, the wine is only half gone, the beer has gone and the original Slovak rum barely touched - mainly because the ingredients clearly state it is alcohol, water and rum flavouring - and tastes like the flavouring you use when baking cakes or making deserts. Still, its alcohol and doesn't make you blind... now where did I pitch my tent...? Zvolen town centre, Route planning Its not all rolling hills and smiling cows. Suburbs ...