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Hey there,
So here we are now in Bratislava, yes you guessed right, the capital of Slovakia. Filippa and I just left Zdiar 2 days ago, where we had a fantastic time. It's in the Tatra mountains,which is the Slovakian version of the Alps, just as magic, and just as wonderful. Again, the hostel we stayed at was amazing. The best hostel ever. It felt like a 2nd home actually. In the evenings we would go out all together and eat at a restaurant, come back, make some popcorn and watch movies. The travellers we met there were fun and had really interesting lives and itineriaries. There was a british italian couple who had lived in Japan for 4 years, teaching english and they had crossed China, Mongolia and Russia with the transsiberian (should be a fantastic experience, It's my first priority on my to do travel list), heading to the baltic countries and now south east with many stops in the east of europe like the Ukraine, Hungary, Croatia and Italy, where they were going to start up a new life. Now doesn't that sound cool?
Talking about Italy, Bratislava reminds me of it, as Slovakians greet each other by saying «ciao» and in general the atmosphere is very south like ( even the weather, eventhough it was pretty windy toay) with all the fountains, trees and benches on the squares. The architecture reminds a lot of Austria (like the national dishes and pastries), but still it has more «eastern ambience» to it. The old city is pretty, laying between the river Donau and some hills on the north east side, and a medieval castle overlooking the city. Still, I don't mind at all that we are leaving today to Vienna, meaning that we have had 1 and a half day here.
Something quite fun though in Bratislava is that there are so many statues of people in fun positions in the old town. Like there is one guy looking out from the gutter, another taking a picture from a street corner, while on another square you would see the statue of H.C. Andersen and even Napoleon leaning on the bench, looking very thoughtful on the main square.
Another eery thing today was that we passed by a restaurant called Filipa, which Filippa was rather amazed about. So while she was taking pictures a doorman of a 5 star hotel started to chat with me and in the end he invited both of us to see the hotel, which was one of the oldest in Slovakia, rather stylish and comfy but ridiculously expensive. But the doorman took his time to show us, poor students, this amazing luxus hotel and convinced us about its facilities and the settings. Why? I don't know. I guess he must have been bored or something, because the hotel looked completely empty.
So in about 2 hours we are going to Vienna, which is only an hour away by train.
Actually, these are the 2 capitals that are closest in the World.
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