Bratislava - 16 October
16 October
Today's journey was a lot of sitting on a bus. Unfortunately a hot summer with no rain since September means the water levels are too low for our boat to get through to Budapest to start our journey. After 2 days on a different ship in Budapest we had to bus to Bratislava to transfer to the ship we were supposed to be on. The schedule change combined with an accident on the highway causing a massive traffic jam meant it was a very fleeting trip to Bratislava. The journey was interesting, on the highway the trucks are not allowed to overtake each other, and they are also not allowed to drive over the weekend. So being a Monday morning all trucks were back on the road meaning there was one lane of nose to tail trucks almost to whole way from Budapest to Bratislava. We did have a great Hungarian host telling us all sorts of interesting things about Hungary, including it is the unhappiness country in Europe, and the Liberty Bridge in Budapest is nick named suicide bridge. Really sad, but after spending a few days in Budapest I don't have any trouble believing it.
On arriving in Bratislava, we have a quick 15 mins to grab some food from the bakery before being taken up to the castle. In contrast to Prague, which is the oldest castle in the world, Bratislava Castle is the newest, at only 1000 years old.
It is very different to each of the other castles we have been to with beautiful English gardens out the front.
A quick whip through St. Martins Cathedral, and our time there was done.
We did get to enjoy our first hour of sailing on the boat, seeing as we were not moving while in Budapest and enjoyed a beautiful river sunset.
Slovakian dumings were on the menu for dinner which pretty much tasted like mac n cheese, super yummy!
Today's journey was a lot of sitting on a bus. Unfortunately a hot summer with no rain since September means the water levels are too low for our boat to get through to Budapest to start our journey. After 2 days on a different ship in Budapest we had to bus to Bratislava to transfer to the ship we were supposed to be on. The schedule change combined with an accident on the highway causing a massive traffic jam meant it was a very fleeting trip to Bratislava. The journey was interesting, on the highway the trucks are not allowed to overtake each other, and they are also not allowed to drive over the weekend. So being a Monday morning all trucks were back on the road meaning there was one lane of nose to tail trucks almost to whole way from Budapest to Bratislava. We did have a great Hungarian host telling us all sorts of interesting things about Hungary, including it is the unhappiness country in Europe, and the Liberty Bridge in Budapest is nick named suicide bridge. Really sad, but after spending a few days in Budapest I don't have any trouble believing it.
On arriving in Bratislava, we have a quick 15 mins to grab some food from the bakery before being taken up to the castle. In contrast to Prague, which is the oldest castle in the world, Bratislava Castle is the newest, at only 1000 years old.
It is very different to each of the other castles we have been to with beautiful English gardens out the front.
A quick whip through St. Martins Cathedral, and our time there was done.
We did get to enjoy our first hour of sailing on the boat, seeing as we were not moving while in Budapest and enjoyed a beautiful river sunset.
Slovakian dumings were on the menu for dinner which pretty much tasted like mac n cheese, super yummy!
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