Back in Bratislava

A Kid in a Candy Store

When I was in Bratislava last week I knew I was going to meet up with Jill and Hayley in Vienna and that they wanted to go to Bratislava, so I only went hiking and didn’t see much of the city. Today we took the train to Bratislava for the day. There are two train stations in Vienna, that are not connected to each other, that run to the two train stations in Bratislava that are also not connected to each other. Both train stations in Vienna are connected to both stations in Bratislava. I don’t understand why they would set things up like this but they did.

We went to the castle, which is completely closed for renovations and then wandered the streets. I was craving some chestnuts so we located a stand and I was able to buy some from a woman that only had 2 two half teeth that were both black. When she opened her mouth I wanted to walk away and buy them from someone else but I bought them from her anyway, I am that addicted.

I managed to lose the map shortly after arriving in Bratislava, which made locating sights difficult. We walked around for a while and when it started to get dark we headed back to the train station. The next train was going to the South train station in Vienna, not the one close to our hostel, but we took it anyway because the train to the station near our hostel wasn’t coming for another 2 hours. Once back in Vienna, we didn’t have that train station on our map and we wandered the streets in the direction of where we thought the hostel was. We were lucky and found the hostel without going the wrong direction a single time.

When wandering around I usually carry my backpack, which contains a sweatshirt, water bottle, umbrella and snacks. We stopped at a grocery store to look for a bottle of gluhwein to take back to the hostel with us and were able to find a one liter bottle for around €1.5. I also found a bottle of Don Simon sangria that I often drank while in Spain which brought back summer memories and made me smile. When checking out the woman behind the counter said “bag” and I told her “no”, they usually charge for bags and I always put things in my backpack to carry back to the hostel. She said “bag” again and I looked at her and realized she wanted to know if she could look in my bag to make sure I hadn’t stolen anything. I let her look inside and everything looked fine to her, even though I had a bag of chips and salsa that I had bought earlier. I guess she assumed if I was willing to show her the contents of my bag, she didn’t care what was in there.

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