Hotel Tatra Bratislava

... that we buy an ice-cream and go to the stari mesto, the old town. This part of the city is gorgeous and charming: we visit St. Martin Cathedral, St. Michael's Tower, Primacy Palace, the main square and Bostota street, the narrowest street of Bratislava ...

... floor of a shopping complex, it turned out) Bratislava could do with some more activities - even the tourist info people looked bored out of their minds. Horse riding, climbing, caving, all of these things should be accessible, it's a bit sad for the Slovakian tourism industry when the main selling point of Bratislava is a day trip to Vienna. The two cities are the closest capital cities in Europe, but it does speak volumes about Bratislava unfortunately. Now. How to spend 12 hours tomorrow??!

... still didnt show. I learned later, he had chatted up a girl quickly but got scared when another guy said "do you know this girl" and his two big friends came up beside him. They bought him a shot of vodka, Im sure he was close to really freaking out. Later, the same girl walked by, and he asked if it was the ones girlfriend, and they said they didnt even know her, just wondering if he did. Cant imagine the relief. And I also learned that kebab ...

... tree and cafe lined streets and just the vibe the place gave off made miles and miles of walking seem like a few short blocks. Even the store fronts were works of art with the most magnificently arranged displays of pastries, meats, cheeses, or whatever else that made me slow down to enjoy the Parisian art of fine living. I would look at my watch and two more hours had vanished quickly. In Madrid outside seems to be just a place used to get from point A ...

Ahoj from Slovakia. Bratislava has been quite a relax place for us. washing, chilling and a bit of sightseeing. on fri when we arrived we met some people in our hostel and just spent the night with them. went out for a meal and there was power cut before the meal had even got to us! so we spent the whole time talking and eating in candle light which i suppose could have been a bit romantic with a partner but not that romantic with three other men!!! went ...

... chairs. I went to the Historical Museum of Vienna at Karlsplatz, which was quite interesting and had a few Klimt and Schiele works hiding in the top. I wanted to go into the Wagner Pavillion, but it wasn't open, so I instead went inside the Karlskirche, which has a huge elevator in the middle of it so you can get most of the way to the top (you have to climb slightly rickety stairs to the very top). I later went to the Wagner ...

... restaurants at which to eat. My wishes were fulfilled. The first night there we made vegetable pasta with pesto. The next day, we went to the New Wine festival of Slovakia's official wine town, Movra, where they were having a carnival to commemorate the occasion. Movra means blue in Sovlak and the town is most famous for its pottery, which is tinted blue. The wine in Movra was sweet, more ...

... to move on. But despite the fact it more recently acquired its status, we enjoyed Bratislava almost as much as its much more famous next door neighbor. True, there are fewer things to see and do in Bratislava than in Prague (or Frog, as we heard one five year old boy call it), but we were enchanted with Bratislava's leisurely pace of life and its small yet quaint old town situated on the banks of the Danube. And we can't blame it for being small - that ...

... unending plains of crops with intermittent copses of trees. I can't help but think of those poor souls in the Wehrmacht in 1941, ever victorious til that point, looking out over that unending steppe. Was it then that they realized that their leadership had bitten off more than they could chew? Regardless, few of them returned to Germany.

... works in a large town in England called Southport and they only have two internet cafes". Small world eh! After quiet dusty lanes I arrived at Trnava, a walled town with pleasant pedestrianised shopping. People could sit and relax - which I did while holding an ice cream. I could have had the cone for 23p but instead I went for the cone tub that came with a spoon for 60p. Prices of such luxuries away from Bratislava are 1/4 the ...