A long travel day yesterday in drizzly rain and fog from Poprad to Bratislava, Slovakia. So – no post yesterday. Interestingly, though, we saw many tanks and artillery pieces loaded onto train flat beds along the way. Perhaps heading toward neighbouring Ukraine?
Bratislava is now the capital of Slovakia, but during the Czechoslovakia days it was a provincial seat. It has some interesting architecture, and is a stopping point for river cruise boats on the Danube River. Bratislava is a major car manufacturing centre. Ben and I enjoyed the fantastic collection of restored ship, car and train hardware in the Slovakia Transport Museum.
Frequent trains make the one hour journey to Vienna. After a morning walk around the Bratislava old town centre we boarded the 12:30 train. We dropped our stuff with the front desk and had a great afternoon. Took the S-baun to Pratern, the city amusement park, and looked at their model train exhibit. Excellent. A recreation of the city of Vienna. Then caught the ‘ring’ tram that circles the inner old city. Saw a lot of the sights from the tram. Wow. Big old architecture here. Got off and walked up the shopping street, had a beer, then got back on the tram for the ride back to the train station and our hotel. Checked in, and went out for dinner. Found a little schnitzel restaurant. Perfect. Schitzel, and struedel for dessert. So good. Tomorrow we go by train to a model train layout in a very small village outside of town.
Please enjoy some of Ben’s pictures of Slovakia.
