We arrived in Bratislava, Slovakia around 11 AM. This gave us more than enough time to cover the whole city. We checked into our Hostel, the City Hostel on Obrachodno street. This seemed to be a pretty big street since it connects their main city center located in the Old Town. The rain definitely followed us here. All day long we were constantly getting rained on. However, that did not stop us from seeing what Bratislava has to offer.
Once checked in, we decided to go see the main sites here: Old Town, St. Martins Cathedral, Bratislava Castle, and Devlin Castle. St. Martins cathedral was way under construction – it is interesting because here, multiple Austrian kings have been crowned. However, there is a huge billboard plastered on the side of the cathedral for a bank in Slovakia – it was pretty bizarre. Bratislava Castle offered a fantastic view of the residential side of Bratislava. Right outside the city there are many parks and forests, which looked incredibly nice. Our next destination was Devlin Castle. We had to take a 30 minute bus out to the castle, however we were able to see views of all of Bratislava, as well as trek around a castle. It was definitely worth the visit. We also visited Old Town, which had a nice little square like many other European cities.
Apparently hockey is a huge deal here and they are hosting the World Championships starting in 3 days! We were bummed because we saw this and immediately said we should go to a game since it would be a cool thing to do at night. Sadly, there were no games but there were a bunch of cool statues of hockey players up. I made sure to snap a photo in “hockey position.”
We are off to Veinna tomorrow at round 9:30 and slated to get in around 11. I wasn’t able to connect to the Internet in Bratislava and is doubtful I will in Veinna. We plan on not getting a hotel for Veinna, and taking the night train from there to Venice.
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