Category Archives: Slovakia

To start off the day we got all of our things ready to go for our train to Vienna later tonight, but before we still had the whole day ahead of us in Bratislava! We cant get enough of castles, well at least not yet, so we decided to spend the day at Devin Castle. With it being just less than an hour away we caught the bus as were on our way! When we got the it was already stunning! The castle looks as thought it was built right now to the edge of the cliff and the stones stand out to the lush forests surrounding it. This castle is most likely the oldest one that we will see on our trip as it was apparently constructed and inhabited all the way back to the fifth century. Apparently you are able to see three different countries from this view. Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic. Since they are all neighbour Slovakia and are in such close proximity to Bratislava. It then stared to rain and there was no where to hide so we headed on back. We walked through the town one last time before collecting our things and going to Vienna.

In just less than an hour we arrived in Vienna and thankfully the rain hadn’t followed us. We made our way to Charlottes and got a little lost on the way. We ended up missing the fact that could take a bus from our tram stopped and waked instead. Oppsss, at least we get an eve better workout since we are wearing our backpacks! Once we mad it there we got tour of the place which included their specular view of Vienna from the rooftop terrace. Conveniently that night there was a movie under the stars being shown right in the square in the front of their place. We sat down to wait for the sun to fade and watch the movie. We had an unobstructed birds eye view and could even hear it too. Now none of us knew what the movie was about since it was in Dutch and had German subtitles, so we made our own plot to go with it! After out attempt I think I will leave the screenwriting to the professionals :) Even bundled up it got rather chilly so we headed inside to shortly fall asleep.

Throughout our trip we have been rather fortunate with getting enough sleep at our hostels, unlike the horror stories we’ve heard from travellers. For our time in Bratislava we choose to stay in just a four person room. To our surprise our two other roommates were at least early 50 year old women! One of them snored like nothing both Andrea have heard before, let’s just say that earplugs and headphones couldn’t deafen the noise. In the morning with whatever sleep if you could even call it that the lady had the nerve to complain to us that we were noisy. Thankfully they both were checking out that day!

We then made our way to the city centre for our walking tour. Now before the trip I didn’t know anything about Bratislava or even where in the map Slovakia was. Apparently this mistake is very common. When President Bush was there and spoke in front of the public he welcomed them as Slovenians even though the Slovakian flag was right beside him. Our tour guide was so informative and let us get to know local traditions and the best places to get a bite of anything! We now know to stay clear of Slovakia during Easter weekend since being a girl reasons in you getting water throw on you and then hit by willow branches by any guy at anytime. After making it through to the end of our tour we needed to try to get some sleep in order to be able to function later on. Once we were all rested up we went to Bratislava Castle. Now there wasn’t much of a castle to see as the whole gardens were basically all dug up with construction around it but there was the very of the city! On our way down we walked into the entrance for the medical city walls. It ha to imagine that the city was once constricted to just within the small perimeter, and there were lots of vendor shops all lined up. Thankfully they were all closed for the day when we were there. We then walked back into the main centre and made our way back to the hostel to catch up on last nights missed sleep.