Hotel Holiday Inn Bratislava

... considering how many different types of people were in there. It sells a lot of traditional Slovak food and beer for stupidly cheap prices, especially since Bratislava isn't considered cheap. A full meal and a few beers cost less than £5. The shots of liquor here are 50ml, twice the standard of the UK, and about a third of the price.

Naturally, we take full advantage of this - it's Helen's birthday, afterall.

... thing i noticed, although more in Warsaw than in Krakow, is that cars move in all sorts of directions, especially when parking. Kind of like Prague...

Not sure if i mentioned too, but there are a lot of artists right in front of the castle at all times, drawing the castle. I think it's a class from college there... In Krakow, it was very easy to see either artists or priest students. I may have a few photos of either ;)




Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia pitabread

... a sua essência. Um todo esperando para ser desbravado. Após visitar países tão ricos e desenvolvidos como Alemanha, Finlândia e Áustria o que sentir ao ver um amontoado de lixo na calçada? Moradores de rua? Confesso que o ...

... the old town, onto the motorway before stopping outside a large mall, so as we are South Africans and the pavilion was like a second home we chose to wonder though the mall, before taking the walk back to town. The old town of Bratislava is tiny. Basically there is the castle and a few modest buildings and then nothing. Stretching out ...

... I dozed for maybe an hour... For breakfast they served us a plate of cold cuts and cheese and a container of yogurt (I think I like Austrian food) as well as hot tea. I thought it would never come, but at 4am Atlanta time, I arrived in Vienna. From what I saw on the bus ride the country is gorgeous. I can't wait to spend more time there. Here are some pictures ...

... so we took the liberty of teasing her about it a little bit. On the way back to Vienna, we weren't so lucky though and had to pay the full price. On the way over to Bratislava, the customs officials barely looked at our passports. Libbie was a little nervous since she had Israel stamped all over her passport, and Eastern European countries aren't always the friendliest. But there wasn't a problem there. When we got out of the train, we were greeted by a train station ...

... before I managed to get to sleep. I got up at around 8:00 for breakfast. Now I've moaned about the sleeping conditions, I'll go on to moan about breakfast. Nick and Pearl went to a nearby Tescos (even Slovakia isn't free of the corporate giants) to pick up some breakfast for the group. When they returned I was presented with a bread roll which looked vaguely like a jacket potato and appeared to deflate when squeezed, then reinflate when left to its own devices. It was like ...

... we had plenty of cash so we could enjoy our last night on holiday before we headed back to the uk in the morning. We located a nice looking hotel close to the city which we found to be far to expensive for our cheap skate tastes so we carried on walking looking for a hostel which turned out to be full of stag nighters and had no room for us. It was around this point that paul started to make himself ...

... towns and some villages. The people eek out a difficult life working as labourers or living off the land - this time of year collecting mushrooms and berries to sell at the roadside. I find it sad they live surrounded by piles of rubbish, a bit of community spirit could change the face of what they have, but I guess when you have little or nothing, there is no incentive to do this. I believe the government is trying to settle them ...