Monday, February 12, 2007

Bratislava - Slovakia

Howdy doody everyone...

Im going to do a little time warp and explain this past weekend...woo wee.... Bratislava the capital of Slovakia..

This trip involved three of us from Ostrava. Myself, Chris, and Greg. They are both from Greece so I was outnumbered...We first went to the train station to get some tickets at the trainstation...Everything started out great becasue we expected to pay about 1000-1200KC for a round trip each.. However to our surprise it ended up only as 840KC round trip for both of us..so everything went in our favour...for now........Our train ride was about 3hours and 15 minutes..however we had to transfer 3 times with only 5 minutes to change each time....we made everyone.. :) so we had to go to a @ conference first which was about one hour away from bratislava in the middle of nowhere and we caught the bus and headed our way....we ended up meeting some people on the bus heading to the conference as well so we went together...the diversity was great..an Italian guy, a British guy, 2 Scottish girls, a Finnish guy, a Lithuanian girl and I can not remember the rest....too many..

We finally arrived and the conference began...it was pretty good...but then it came to the event where each person got to try a bit of alcohol from every country...as I did not bring anything I joined the Greek table....everybody drank and drank and the party began....it was a great night with everybody together.....I am definitely meeting these people again either in the Czech Republic or back in Slovkia....I wont explain the details ;) but I did not go to bed until 430am...
Since Chris and I wanted to see Bratislava we had to get up early...there were only two buses out of this small village...one at 840am or one at 530pm...we had to catch the early one or miss the whole day... HOWEVER...breakfast was served only at 830am...the distance from the conference to the bus stop was 10 minutes...As we were starving...we decided to go with the stupid choice...breakfast first then run.....OF COURSE we didnt make it....and missed it by 20 seconds...we ran for the bus...but the dam thing just left.....we did not want to miss the day...so we wanted to walk to the nearest village...and catch a bus there...of course we were in the middle of nowhere with just forests and a high way....we walked and walked....we even tried to hitchhike..( i cant beleive i tried it)....FINALLY an hour after walking on the highway in the middle of nowhere....we found a small town...(equivalent to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre) SERIOSLY...id freak out at night....we caught any bus just to get the hell out of there and headed to Bratislava....

Bratislava was great...Chris and I saw everything in about 4 hours...and headed back home...the journey was better as it was a straight train to Ostrava....My travels are now at two
countries..the Czech Republic and Slovakia...the next plan...Paris France.....

Till next time friends..

Kevin :)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

my highlight of the week was studying for my two midterms. you suck..ROUNDHOUSE KICK TO YOUR FACE!!!