Dukla Bratislava Hotel

... my bus ride tomorrow to Budapest (just under 6 euros, super cheap, I think). Then I went to look for my CS host and waited...<br><br>and waited...<br><br>I freaked out a bit, since I couldn't communicate with her for whatever reason; every time I rang her from the public phones I would get an error message, but after about 40 minutes, and me freaking out, I was finally able to reach her via a nice man's cellphone, and she was ...

... of an ATM to get some local money out. There was none to be seen so we headed out the front and noticed a big bank building across the road. We walked around the huge building and found it was closed but there were ATM's inside. I tried swiping my credit card, which often in Europe will allow you into a small room where you can access the ATM's. No luck. We went back into the station and tried to find anything that looked like tourist info. There was nothing even ...

... including Liszt. We got ourselves some ice cream and headed back to hostel; we wanted to get up early for our one full day in this beautiful city. sidenotes- It seemed almost as though we were walking through Italy but with a Central European twist: there was gelato everywhere, restuarants that served only pizza and pasta, and everything felt very Mediterranean. - It was nice to be in a place with 85 degree weather for Spring ...

... about the history of Bratislava, which was nice. Too often, I leave a country not feeling like I really knew that much about it. Yes, I see the sights, but the small things? Learning about the history or society of a country - not so much... And to reward myself, for a country well-conquered, I dined on crepes! SO TASTY!!!! I swear, I crave crepes about 85% of the time, but only get them once every six months or so, so this was a lovely treat. Slovak ...

as i mentioned in the last entry, me and my yankee mate ali decided to travel a few days together so we headed from vienna still ****** to bratislava in slovakia. bratislava is famed amongst some as the location for the film 'hostel', i personally have never seen it because i regularly have to stay in hostel with a bunch of ****ed up wierdos so i didnt think it wise to scare myself even more. its menna be pretty gruesome anyway, eyeballs out ...

... see it becoming a more popular tourist destination with the low cost airlines bringing in lots of visitors. It looks like businesses have already begun discovering Bratislava with its multilingual workforce and location right in the middle of Europe. The city looks ready for all of the dollars these businesses and tourists will bring. I am now off by train to my next destination that I have not visited in 15 years. I look forward to seeing what has happened since my last visit.

Bratislava - 12/23 - 26 Vienna --bus--&gt; Bratislava missed the 1130 bus, sat around in the freezing cold till 4 caroline and genaveve drinking with tom the aussie and the 2 slovacs, plum liquor eagles playoff game with tvuplayer eveything is closed mcdonalds for xmas dinner local xmas food from the hostel receptionist manuela and the brazilians

So this happend to be my first trip to Bratislava. Why this place? Well honestly since watching "The Living Daylights" (a Bond movie from the 80's staring Thimothy Dalton) I've been a bit in love with the ambiensce that was created around this east european capital. So now is the time to see if evrything is as it should be :) Arrived with SKY Europe around noon and been ...

... EU average. The city itself is a salad of new and old, with a toss of Soviet leftovers thrown in for flavor. If anyone has seen "Eurotrip" (American Pie-esque but based on a road trip through Europe), Bratislava is portrayed as having row after row of apartments built in the prison style of architecture so favored by the former Eastern bloc, littered with trash, populated with ugly people with bad teeth driving Ladas, but a nickel will buy you a phenomenal meal and get ...

... going to wrestle the soup and mess tin from her so we sat, ate cakes, drank coffee and chatted. Our host sat with us, Janlec [guess at spelling]. When we indicated our intention to go to Banska Bystrica and camp for the night by showing the route on the map, a look of disagreement flashed across her face. The impression we got was the road was closed, maybe the campsite was closed, a police road block or maybe highway robbers ...