Bratislava here we come

Everything is just so close within Europe so it’s easy to move around here. After spending the day in Brno in the Czech Republic the next day we took a train over to Slovakia to visit Bratislava. The train took just about 2 hrs and we were there…fantastic.

Bratislava isn’t too big so I think 1 day was sufficient although I’m sure you could easily preoccupy yourself there for a few days at least. When we arrived we just walked around the town for a bit and decided eventually to sit down for some coffee. I also got something to eat…a crepe. I thought it would be like what I’d tried before…like French crepes but it was different and actually really good. It’s a bit thicker and its even called a pancake (although it much more like a French crepe than an American pancake) and it was filled with yummy cheese and ham and topped w/ some veggies. Yum!!!

Apparently these “pancakes” are really popular in that area of Europe since I started to see them all over afterwards. Anyways, we all left the coffee place content and tummies full and began to wander some more. FYI while we're on the topic of food I should also mention that I found a restaurant named ALEXIS while wandering around...quite strange since its a greek name but I LOVE it!

The town is quite cute and a good tourist spot. There's plenty to explore and its just a "typical" European town. It was also nice because they used euros so I didn’t have to change money over again (Czech uses crowns).

Wandering around the town is pretty much what we did all day and it was great. We wandered through a cemetery, up the hill to a fantastic lookout point, over to the castle and walked just past the river.

We also found a festival going on with children of all ages dressed up in tradition costumes and doing performances (we saw one with singing and dancing). I wish we could have stayed for more but we had to head and catch our train back (the last one for the evening back to Brno). Before we did however we made a few pit stops. First to the “man in the hole”…just a statue of a man sticking his head out of a manhole…apparently it’s a famous thing there and its actually pretty neat. Then we grabbed some 1euro ice cream…not too bad of a treat on a sunny day. And the last stop was the “blue church” that is literally blue. We weren’t entirely sure why they painted it the light blue but we made some funny stories up about why we thought it was that way…they ran out of white paint at the store, they were trying to match it with the sky, etc. It was really nice though and they even had a sermon going on so we dropped in for a little bit but soon had to leave to catch our train.

We had to rush but we did make it on time, with a few min to spare and headed to Brno. And once again in Brno there were parties going on but we were pretty exhausted so it was mostly just a chill night of eating pizza and playing a card game…and only a little bit of hanging out with people afterwards :)
I wanted to go to bed relatively early however because the next morning we had another trip…and I still had to pack since we were staying overnight at our next destination. Stay tuned to find out where we went…