Bratislava is a very pretty city, don't get me wrong. I am fully aware that it's my own fault I didn't have a good time there. But anyway, here's what happened:Scott and I were only in Bratislava for three nights; two full days. We arrived from the High Tatras with a huge load of dirty clothes, and our heads full of the blogs we should have been writing the last few weeks. So when we discovered that our hostel had free laundry and internet I got m...

We just keep getting further and further from the big cities. While Scott and I were in Olomouc I realized that I'd gradually been getting all I lacked in during the previous month in all those big cities. In Germany we slowed down and finally didn't have to follow a to-do list. In Prague we got a social life, and in Olomouc we escaped the crowds. In that little town I realized that the only thing I'd lacked for a while was a breath of fresh air, so w...