"Hello, Loredana, you want to go next week in Bratislava? Flight costs 6 euros return." "Okay, let's go."
will be difficult to get two days off, Thursday and Friday. In fact I do not. But equally. Loredana
not even know where he is Bratislava. Just enough time for a quick course in geopolitics and we're on the plane. One thing I never understood is why, whatever the destination, the route, the journey, the reason, you should arrive at the airport at dawn. Mai na time I find a flight, say, at ten o'clock in the morning. No, at seven. The good news is that we landed in Bratislava early, too early for check-in hotel. We at the Hotel Kiev, an ugly tower block. I'm opinions on hotels are conflicting. Economic and central, but not very clean, maybe not quite modern. I'd go back there.
The city tour begins. Bratislava welcomes us with a warm sun hidden by clouds early in the morning and charged in the pale afternoon. The rain will surprise us (so to speak) of coffee per hour.
The city is nice, small, easy to visit. The Stare Mesto, or Old Town is to be sipped slowly, maybe stop at a coffee shop from time to time, in search of statues scattered here and there that Saltan out to surprise Cumil the bell'ignazio, the Napoleonic soldier the photographer. Then the pink palace, the gates of San Michele, squares up to the cathedral from which you climb to the castle overlooking the city, the Danube, and by flying the look, the Carpathians on the one hand, Austria on the other .
Just outside the old town is a strange church, dedicated to St. Elisabeltta think of Hungary, art nouveau, blue color, inside and out.
The food is good, a bit 'heavy, but good. To try Halusky , dumplings in a bath of goat cheese, decorated with bacon and pork chops the Prasna Basta, a place near the port of San Michele, where for 15 euros you can eat in two.
'worth duegiorni Nzomma Bratislava, a weekend Thursday or Friday, as in our case, can be a daytrip for visitors to Vienna or Budapest, or Krakow. The Slovaks speak their language well and in places where it serves an excellent English and then German, French, some Italian. Life in the center is buzzing in the evening. There are many pubs to drink, to eat at a certain time and listen to music, even live. And the beer costs a euro or so!
