Lucky us, we got to travel the week after Easter, we flew into Bratislava. The kids had me watch a clip of the movie Eurotrip, where they go to Bratislava and it is a total dump. I am happy to report that the Old City of Bratislava that we visited was beautiful and charming.
We arrived just before sunset and got to stay right in the heart of the old town. We loved having a nice dinner and walking around the old city...
The theater building was lit up beautifully.
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| Charlie liked this pig out in front of a restaurant. |
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| This statue of a sewer worker popping up from the street was fun to find. |
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| The city added this sign after people had tripped or driven over the statue! |
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| Happy wanderers..even Charlie which made it into a wonderful night...a tired little boy is torture! |
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| The entry into an old bomb shelter which was now a tea house, it was fun but eerie to go down into it. |
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| Checking out of our apartment, cool entry way into the old building, inside was nicely renovated, but many stairs to climb! |
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| A hand painted Easter egg that was a gift from the people of Croatia. |
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We arrived on April 4 which was the anniversary of the liberation of Bratislava by Russia in 1945, they must have had a ceremony on the 4th, we walked by the next morning, here are all the flowers sent by countries around the world.
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| Here are the flowers sent by America..thought all of you American people would be happy to see this! |
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At the restaurant we ate at there was this picture (of two heads on the wall). We didn't know what it was of..but as we walked around Greg found the two heads...they were on a cannon!
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| Good detective work I think! |
We walked to a breakfast place that had good reviews online. Charlie thought the walk was way too long and had a bit of a meltdown on the way! The menu was first in Slovak...we couldn't decipher any of it...I asked the lady if they had an English menu and luckily they did...we instantly found all sorts of breakfast foods we recognized!
We were surprised how much English was spoken. It was very easy for us to get around here!
Our walk took us by the President's Palace and we must have just missed a changing of the guard ceremony at noon, they walked past us on the street...
We then walked by the front of the palace and saw the new reliefs standing watch.
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| Looked like kind of boring duty, I felt for them! |
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| Better view of the palace. |
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| Leaving Bratislava we crossed what is known as the UFO bridge...you can see why... |
Our next stop was for two nights in the countryside. I knew I would need a break between all the big cities...Greg and the girls were not excited about the boring countryside..but Charlie and I were looking forward to it because we knew the place had bikes to ride and was by a river.
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