Devin Hotel Bratislava

... home, and it looks as though the driver is German, and used to being on the Autobahn, because we are flying. I have no complaints with that!

Tomorrow, early - bus to Munich. Eight hours of fun. I am getting used to this travel thing… ipod will be charged, tv shows on laptop ready… and no doubt I will be tired. The real adventure starts Saturday morning, with Oktoberfest. The bloodbath.

As always, there will be more to come!

... really am looking forward to some extra time in Vienna, I will be leaving for Budapest in 2 nights. It should be enough. I am, however, surprised to have read that this was one of the places Hans Christian Andersen praised. Considering he is one of the main reasons i would like to go to Copenhagen, I am glad I am here as well! :)

Till next time!

... 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 is the castle. It was closed for renovation, but we still went up to the grounds, so we could get a good view of the city and learn about the castle. The whole thing was pretty comical, because ...

When we finally found out what train we were catching we made our way to the platform. The ticket cost us 56aud for return trip for 2 x people, so very cheap. We were expecting to be sitting with the cattle and chickens but when we finally found our carriage it was very comfortable. Nice velvet type seats, clean, table between the seats for reading or playing cards.The trip ...

this wasn't on my original plan of places to visit, but being so close i couldn't pass up the oppurtunity to see another country... being that it at one point was one country with czech, and i loved czech so much, i thought i would see some similarities, but that isnt the case... its a beautiful city, but not a whole lot to do.. its quite a small city, well ...

... area. It was very run down. Most of what we saw of Slovakia was green hills, different types of trees, small rivers and a few houses made of wood. We stopped at a McDonald's for lunch and were told not to get hamburgers since it could not be known how long they were out. She said it was fine to get fries and other things, just not meat. I opted for fries, coke and ice cream. They accepted euros but in ...

... Integration class was pretty much a joke because we met for 20 minutes and then left. The class is going to be very easy in that 70% of our grade is a 15 page group paper (up to 4 kids per group!) that we have to write and present. The other 30% is a final Exam. The Foreign Exchange Risk class seems a bit harder and involves a lot of Finance. The class met for about 2 ˝ hours and we mainly covered the different exchange rates and the risk in trading different ...

... the castle. The castle had a Leonardo da Vinci exhibit in it which was amazing, until Lootch felt like he was either going to pass out, throw up or both so we had to leave. I guess thats what drinking heavily the night before, not having anything to eat, and walking up countless stairs in the hot sun will do to you. We then walked around for a little while longer and checked out a Womens Slovakian beach volleyball game, purely for our love of the game ...

Hiya everyone. We arrived safely in Bratislava yesterday morning by train from Vienna. First let me fill you in on our last day in Austria... we decided to get out of the city for the day, so we took the u-bahn and a tram to a suburb called Grinzing, that has retained it's villagey-ness. It was so picturesque and awesome and unbelievably cool. We got there just as everyone was shutting down for their lunch break though, so we went walking towards the Vienna ...

... Hungry, but not for long... 18 Aug, Thursday Start point: Velky Kamen End point: Carei (Romania) Via: Odom(Km): 139.44 Moving(hrs.mim): 7.32 Ave(Km/h): 18.5 Total Ascent(m): 600 Max Altitude(m) 160 Max Speed(Km/h): 33.6 The guest house was one of a handful setup around Europe to provide accommodation for travelling artists. This went some way to explain the number of paintings around the house. A project with the towns 'twin' to ...