Bratislava - An Escape From Vienna

I have been travelling few times around area Vienna / Budapest on my previous trips and every time thought to visit in Bratislava since it is so close both of them but never manage to do that. This time I was going to do that for sure even that turn out to be a night without sleep in Vienna before. Train ride from Vienna to Bratislava takes an hour which means good time to sleep. I left my backpack in the locker at Vienna because I needed to return there later to take a night train (again) to Germany so I could travel light for this one day which was nice since it was going to be again around +30 Celsius degrees. 

Eastern Europe has it own atmosphere, it is hard to describe on words but for some reason for some reason it can be noticed when arriving from Western Europe to Eastern Europe. At least one certain thing is that in general prices get lower… Ice cream scoops 1e, beer (pint), 2e, or traditional Slovakian all you can eat buffet 6e. Not complaining at all.

Bratislava is a place which easily is discovered during one day, of course you it would be possible to spend more time if visiting all museums etc… But seeing an old town and castle are the most important things to do there. The old city is much similar kind of than Zagreb, Dubrovnik and little bit like Budapest… Made for pedestrians, small streets full of shops and restaurants. At quick look it didn’t seem to be place that much for younger people to visit because most of the tourists (especially walking tour groups) were middle-aged and onwards.

I was rather tired as you might imagine so I needed to start day with having an ice coffee and I managed to find really nice place. Kind of spacious and comfortable design cafeteria where lamps were for example made from pots and it acted as a small book shop / reading corner place at same time. Near that place I found a road sign that somehow I just felt to fit for myself well… I would say that it reminded me about my past 9 months, life is just all about attitude and there is no need to stress too much about work.

I climbed to the castle where I could see really beautiful views over the city. Around midday and plus 30-35 degrees climbing up sun heated stone stairs was interesting thing to do but luckily I found also some shade (forgot to put sun block again) to chill out up there and just watch people and views. The holiday – A man at work indeed!

After a day in Bratislava I was now able to pin up again new country and city on my map of the world. So back to train and Vienna and no this time there was only a poor men air-condition which mean open up windows and let the wind blow. Last look of Vienna and then boarding into a night train to Neuss.