Hotel Marrols Bratislava

... an older folk, because I could have walked quicker. After a quick judgement call, I jumped ship and found a taxi. He must have understood me, because we proceeded to speed through the city and break as many rules as we could just as I asked. People will do anything for a 10 euro note these days. <br><br>Well I blame my fickle attempt to look like a grateful customer. Rustling in my pockets for euro shrapnel cost vital seconds that I later found could have ...

... over by communist houses - that is according to my book (which is very very much anti-communist, i kind of feel the need to get defensive here! :)). You will see on the photos. <br>The architecture here is of different styles, from Baroque to Gothic to Classical and beyond. I realized finally (although knew it all along deep inside) that my favorite is Gothic style. I can stare at it for hours, and i get so emotional at some of the most beautiful things ...

... foi a primeira coisa que me veio na cabeça. Incrível que tão longe do Brasil e tão perto ao mesmo tempo. No fim não somos tão diferentes assim. Nada como o contraste para nos ensinar. Tão próximos e tão diferentes ...

... gemuetlichen Irish Pub, in dem an diesem Abend die Blueberries Blues-Livemusik liefern (naja, so stand es draussen auf dem Plakat, eigentlich war die Musik eine nette Mischung aus ner Menge bekannter Songs). Und uebriges slowakisches Geld investieren wir - wie sollte es anders sein- in Bahnhofskaffee (wie gut, dass dieser Automatenkaffee absolut koffeinfrei zu ...

... ended up going out of town towards a shopping complex. Retail therapy never hurt anyone. We managed to head back towards the city centre and climbed up towards the old castle on the hilltop. Not as impressive as Budapest or Ljubljana...but excellent views of the city. Bratislava is pretty small and a day trip was pretty much all we needed to see it. Off to Vienna now.

... my camera, so I don't have any pictures of this. Once we got downtown, Libbie found one of the Castles that she had read about in her guide book of Bratislava. The Castle is on top of a hill overlooking the town and was built around the 13th century I believe. We went up to the castle and found out that tours cost the equivalent of $2, so we decided that it was worth it to go in. When we got in the castle, the structure was fairly impressive. However, the tour, we ...

Posted at 9:33: I've just had the most terrible sleepless night. It was ridiculously sticky in our room, which we shared with a few strangers, and boy, one of them could snore! What I thought was the end of the world turned out just to be the guy in the bunk below me breathing in with a blocked nose. A few British travellers didn't respect hostel rules and were talking outside our room until the early hours too. I remember hearing the nearby church bell chiming 5 times to signify 5 o ...

... in Bratislava and headed downtown to meet our friend Radovan who we were staying with. Headed back to his place which was in an old Communist Era housing development. Nice pad though. I got to watch some of the NBA playoffs, which was nice. Tomorrow we see the city.

... so plenty of conversation for Craig, who's also an engineer. They all speak excellent English, and most have lived or travelled in the US. One lived in Los Angeles for a few months, and he told me that he was relieved and happy when the weather turned cloudy one day - all the sunshine was boring for him. I replied that he's clearly not American, that the consistent sunny weather draws most people to California. By way of ...

... estates - all the things you expect to see in a large town or city. In the east things are different. The towns have a few Co-ops, post office, garage, textile shop and that's about it. Another feature of the east is the gypsy slum dwellings, or shanty towns. What started as the odd tin shelter gave way to large numbers of wood and tin huts occupied by a few adults and hundreds of children. They are located the outskirts of ...