Slovakia

Bratislava

September 16, 2007

Bratislava was nothing I thought It would be, it definitely exceeded my expectations!

Day 13

We took the train from Vienna to Bratislava at around 11:30am, arriving at around 12:30pm. The entire trip cost about 6 euro, with our Euro rail pass. It was definitely worth it. Brian got some Slovak money and I used my euros for the day. We found a street map and were on our way. We walked down to the city center, which took about 20min. We got some postcards, took some pictures, and bought some stuff at a festival. Since it was Sunday almost everything was closed except for restaurants and touristy stuff. We saw: Bratislava Castle, St. Martin's Cathedral, Old town hall, Slovak National Theatre, Grassalkovich palace, and the Capuchin Church. We sat and rested on the river walk over looking the Danube river before heading back to the train station.

*I have now official seen the Danube river in 3 countries, next stop Belgrade and Ulm! Anyway, the most interesting thing about Bratislava were the Embassies. There were over 20 embassies in the city. The US embassy of course was guarded by wired fences, and a security gate, at all the other embassies you could literally just walk up and knock on the front door!

Bratislava is a 3. It was not at all frightning, or dirty, I like it alot especailly the town square.

Brian and Ashley trip: day trip. Day 13.