Bratislava
View from Bratislava Castle
October 27, 2004
We got into Bratislava late and unfortunately got off at the wrong station. We noticed
in time to watch our train pull away from the station, so we were stuck. Fortunately
we met a young Slovakian girl who spoke good English and she just happened to be
going to the main train station so helped us get there. She was very nice and seemed
very excited to meet Americans, but she was perhaps more excited to learn the Polish
phrases that we taught her. She showed us the way to the hotel and we departed ways.
The hotel was expensive for a couple college students and we paid more than we did
in Prague, but it was our best option this late.
October 28, 2004
Breakfast was included in our room cost so we ate, left our bags in the hotel and
went to the train station around the corner. We realized that there are only day
trains to Krakow so we booked one at 3:00pm. This gave us only a few hours in Bratislava
so we took off to see as much as we could. The city is very nice, but small.
We saw the president’s palace and the military was outside doing some routines as
we watched. We also saw the castle, which provided great views. The town itself
is nice, the streets and buildings are great, but there’s very little to see and
much of the city is more communist, architecturally than Slovakian outside the historic
downtown.
The couple hours we had were good enough to see the highlights and when 3:00 came
around we were ready to go.
Bratislava Castle