Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Bratislava!

Towards the end of September, Andy and I made a trip to Bratislava, Slovakia, where we were able to sort out a temporary visa for Andy while we wait for the bureaucracy to churn out our residence permits. Bratislava is only a one hour bus ride away from Vienna. We took the very early bus and arrived in the city at about 8 am. Our business was finished by 9:00, and we had reserved the whole day for dealing with this, so we had a delightful day in Bratislava!

First, it is a very small town, especially considering it is the national capitol of Slovakia. The historic old town district was very charming, and had a nice, quaint feeling.

There were also lots of fun street sculptures scattered throughout the city center:

Immediately outside of the city center, things seemed like they hadn't been maintained since World War II....
We then walked to the Medieval fortress that stood on top of the hill that overlooked the city:
That was very interesting, but they were doing some construction, so we couldn't really go inside. However, we did go to the museum that showed all the artifacts they had found through renovations over the centuries, and there was quite a variety spanning throughout the last millennium.

We ended our day with some delicious Debreziners and beer: