Bratislava

Trip Start May 07, 2005
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005

We didn't know what to expect in Bratislava. It was our first time in Eastern Europe (excluding Prague which is more like a tourist theme park). Our first taste of Eastern Europe was trying to get a bus ticket. You can only buy tickets from the ticket machine and it only takes coins. Nobody at the airport would make change and we needed a lot of change to buy tickets. We thought about buying 10 packs of gum one at a time but that seemed silly. Eventually we found a coffee machine that would make change (the one in our terminal was broken).

We stayed in an apartment. We had some difficulty finding it at first but people on the street were very friendly and helpful. The apartment was nice and the owner was helpful and gave us lots of information and maps.

After being in expensive Scandinavia we were almost overwhelmed at how cheap everything was. 30 cents for coffee from a machine compared to $2. We shopped at the local equivalent to Walmart. We ate out twice at a great little cafeteria. It was in the middle of the tourist zone but it always had a long line of Slovakians waiting to get in. It was vegetarian, yummy, cheap, and no-nonsense. They didn't speak any English and the English menu was often wrong but everything was good so we didn't mind.

We saw the castle. We just walked around the grounds and had a good view of the city and the Danube. Someone offered to take our picture and was surprised when we spoke English.

We were glad that we didn't skip Bratislava, something we had considered doing.
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