Meydan Hotel Danube Bratislava

... comparison to Prague. The city centre is not so glamorous and more commercial than touristy, I guess like most cities around the world. With mission accomplished, I headed back to the station - there was no way I was missing this train! Imagine my mixture of emotions when I learnt that the train was 45 minutes late. I think steam actually came out of my ears, but no, I contained myself. I just set my jaw and waited like a good boy. Now I am on the train ...

... It is reallly pretty.

In Bratislava, everything so far seems to be quite close. I have not done much - just walked from bus staition to hostel (pretty good hostel, it seems this far), but i walked instead of recommended taking bus - and it was only a few minutes.

Since the guide says that Bratislava does not have much sightseeing, and ...

... bestowed the name "House of Roofies" upon it. The 'ole toothless residents of the neighborhood sure love when a bunch of 20-something girls come in, that's for sure! Friday morning the 3 of us headed to Bratislava for the day. It is only an hour away by bus (surprisingly nice, non-Greyhound-like buses). The town itself is actually quite nice as well. I think ...

... I also went to use the water closet and had to pay! I was surprised but some countries are still like that. Europe will nickel and dime you to death. We took the bus back to Vienna and drank coffee in a cafe and ate dinner. We are now packing to fly back to Ireland tomorrow. I doubt we will do much tomorrow, so look for an entry and pictures (my camera is dying) on Saturday.

... one stall and lo and behold a man was in there! Luckily, he was standing and had his back to me, so I quickly closed the door and ran out! I don't think he saw me, well at least I hope not! Going through Slovakia was really pretty except for some work-plants that ruined the scenery in certain areas. Tunde even pointed out an area where Gypsies lived. All I can say is that these people didn't take care of their ...

... The monkeys were probably the coolest animals that we saw as there were all different kinds that I had never seen before and they were all swinging back and forth on vines playing with different items. We also saw the polar bears get fed and saw one polar bear steal some food from the other...the victimized bear wasn't too happy! Today I had my first day of classes. I went to two classes, Financial Integration in an Enlarged EU, and Foreign Exchange Risk. The ...

Summary of yesterday: We started the day with checking out the National museum which had a very informative exhibit on the Wooly Mammoth and lots of exciting rocks, plants, bugs. After that thrilling endeavor we went to the UFO on top of the bridge. Its very hard to visualize that without a picture and since I still cant figure out how to post them on these funny computers it will have to wait. Next we went decided to check out a cathedral, of course ...

After a long wait at Hahn airport for more than 5 hours, we finally depart and arrive in Bratislava 2 hours later. We meet a deaf Belgium fella named Svend (hope we got his name spelling correctly) and chatted on the bus on the way to Vienna. We found out that he's the ex of my Swedish friend, Ulla, who stayed at my NYC apartment a couple of years ago! Nice deaf connection.