A Second Look at Bratislava

Thursday, July 31, 2014--Bratislava, Slovakia

Our hotel has a huge breakfast buffet.  Any weight I lost during the first week of the trip was probably regained this morning.  I had juice, coffee, a poached egg, bacon, Swiss cheese, waffles with jam, bread with butter and jam, watermelon, grapes, apple cake, and a spice cake with butter.  It was nice.

We took another look at Bratislava today.  Maybe it's not quite as bad as I described it yesterday, but it isn't much better.  We climbed to Bratislava Castle for views of the city.  (The castle itself is a rebuild from 1956, and of no particular interest.)  We wandered the old town much of the day, often sitting to watch people.  We found two more people playing the piano in the patio of the Old City Hall.  We walked to the side of the Danube and watched the boats docked along there.  (There isn't much traffic on the Danube in this area like their used to be.)

In addition to all of that, we stopped by the train station to buy our tickets for leaving on Saturday, and we searched for a place to exchange some of our left-over florints from Hungary.  Apparently, there are no private exchange houses here, and none of the banks show foreign exchange rates.  We just used an ATM to get Euros and will try to exchange the Hungarian currency in either the Czech Republic or Poland as we go to those countries.

It's our conclusion that Bratislava is good for a 1-day visit.  Tomorrow, we will go out of town part of the day since there is nothing new that we want to see here in town.