Miserable City

Trip Start Feb 15, 2006
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Trip End Feb 14, 2007


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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

We were not impressed with Slovakia. At the border we had to double bank a five mile queue of trucks with their drivers looking bored stiff - they must have been there for a week or so. Then once over the border and approaching Bratislava we found a miserable jobs worth petrol pump attendant and loads of communist style anonymous housing blocks of flats.

The centre of Bratislava was the size of a postage stamp and we were told off by a miserable old age pensioner for parking and we found the most inhuman grocery store where as soon as you looked at an item on the shelf, it would be rung up for you to pay for.

To cap it all, the centre of the old town was a metro Tesco store.

We left straight away and carried on into Austria and Vienna.
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matos
matos on Jan 28, 2008 at 11:15PM

Prepare yourself before you enter some city
Nowadys we are in Shengen so you do not have to wait on the border, unless you are not entering Slovakia frm Ukraine.
If ou would get interrested in our Capital, you woould find, that in our city of the size of the postage stamp were corronated 11 hungarian and austro-hungarian kings and queens. If you came just for seeing some groceries and Tescos, they are better in bigger cities, or in the suburbans. Not in the city.

I recomend you the web of our capital:
http://www.bratislava.sk/en

Best wishes,

Martin

marisasp
marisasp on Jun 10, 2008 at 01:09PM

Re: Prepare yourself before you enter some city
Hi Martin,
I'm travelling to Slovakia at the end of June. I'm having a lot of problems to find information about the country. Do you know where should I ask?

Thanks,

Marisa

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