After our long train trip from Krakow the train taking us across to Czech before heading down to Slovakia. Within our first hour of getting to our apartment we were locked out of apartment. How? you may wonder.
Well we went to the supermarket to get food for the next few days we came back and the keys would not unlock the door. They were definitely the right ones and both of us tried turning it as far as it would go in both directions bruising our hands. Giving up and still locked out of the apartment we sat on the stairs eating ice cream because it was melting and the lady had not replied to our message about getting back in. We didn't want to waste perfectly good ice cream. After about an hour we figured out the secret trick to magic the door open by pulling the solid handle, pushing the rest of the door and turning the key further than the lock would allow you when you weren't pulling the handle... so logical that I don't know how we didn't just do that first!
SO having eaten all of our 6 ice creams now we went and had dinner and enjoyed the rest of our night.
A few points about Bratislava and Slovakia: The city has one of the best tasting water in the world, it is up there with Lithuania and Melbourne.
This country also has awesome mountains which we will be visiting over the next few days.
Slovakia is ice hockey mad. There team is in the top 10 of the world.
Also there is not many tourists here YAY!
Bratislava the city of statues - let the hunt begin!
Old town
Statue #1: Napoleon
Bec hanging out with Napoleon
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| The Church in the Old town main square |
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| It has cool coloured Tiles on the roof |
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| The house on the right is our new home ;) its architecture is beautiful and there is a chocolate cafe on the ground floor, not to mention it is in one of the best cities in Europe... Perfect :) Statue #2: Soldier And #3: some guy with a hat??? |
statue #4: Man at work
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| A Jewish Monument |
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| The UFO Bridge |
bec gives the thumbs up for Bratislava
She also decides to give it some love too
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| Statue # something, we lost count and stopped taking photos of all of them: lady with crows and a former princess who took a vow of poverty after the death of her husband. |
The view from the castle at the top of the hill - can see old town and out to new town
so many hills and stairs to get up to the castle
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| the view out over the Danube |
this is Slovakia's version of the double decker city tourist buses that is found in every other country
the castle the original one burnt down in the 1800's they finally rebuilt it in the 1950's.
Slovakia have more wind farms then we do. These people are fine, Don't think there is a health issue here Tony.
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| Statue # 372: lady out the front of the town offices |
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| Such a cute little tourist train |
tram coming through a tunnel that goes under the castle
Walking through the old ton cobble streets
a smaller version of there already small tourist bus
Beers are ridiculously cheap here. we were at a micro brewery and it cost 4 euro for a litre of beer (2 euro for each of these! at an award winning micro brewery!). At the supermarket you can buy pint size cans for 40 cents.
Us supporting Slovakian ice hockey with some jerseys and a puck, they are ice hockey obsessed here and have one of the nest national teams in the world
So we are leaving Bratislava tomorrow but that is not the end of our Slovakian Adventure! We are once again hiring a car and taking a bit of a road trip to the mini Slovakian Alps for 4 or so days. from there we will be heading to the Hungarian capital Budapest for a week.
We wont have any wifi in the mountains so no updates until after then.
But more on that later.
