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Three Terrific Christmas Markets
Blog: Sophie's World - 20 November 2011
A highlight in Europe this time of year is the cheerful (sometimes even magical) Christmas markets. I adore browsing through the arts and crafts for sale, and trying some of the hearty seasonal street food. And then there’s mulled wine. Here are three of my favourite Christmas markets: Elegant and child-friendly Vienna I’m very fond [...]Three Terrific Christmas Markets is a post from Sophie's World
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The Weekly Photo: Bratislava Castle
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 23 October 2011
Bratislava Castle overlooking the Danube river Heading here? Book your travel using the links below and help support this website and keep it running: Cheap Flights | Travel insurance | Hotels | Hostels |Guidebooks | 50 Adventure Tours under $995 ©Nomadic Matt's Travel Site.
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Beautiful Bratislava: Photo focus
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 3 October 2011
I want to conclude my series of posts about Bratislava, Slovakia, with a photo focus on all the beautiful little details in its compact old town which I got to photograph. As you can see, it is a photographer’s dream! It’s dotted with… …cute detail on shop fronts and shop windows … ornate doors [...]
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Things to do in Bratislava
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 22 September 2011
I am in love with Bratislava. After 8 months of not visiting any new places, my trip there was reinvigorating. While researching information about it, I was surprised to find that the main source for bad reviews about the place was the fact that the ‘old town was very small’. For me, this is actually the reason [...]
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St. Martin’s Cathedral, Bratislava: Pictures take you places
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 19 September 2011
Coming from a country with (I think) 365 churches, chapels and cathedrals in the space of 300 km squared, the prospect of visiting them while travelling is usually as appealing to me as jabbing a fork into my hand, but, St. Martin’s Cathedral in Bratislava, Slovakia, was different. A seriously old structure consecrated in 1452, [...]
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Budapest, Vienna and Bratislava: cruising along the Danube
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 15 September 2011
I find it more than a little funny that now that I’m leaving Europe I should be filled with an almost uncontrollable desire to explore it further, a feeling which verges on regretting not having seen (though admittedly I couldn’t help it) more of this rich and diverse continent. There are some places I didn’t [...]
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Bratislava: Portrait of a City
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 12 September 2011
There are so corners of the world which I’d probably not be that motivated to visit unless something made me do so. This was the case with Bratislava, Slovakia. It’s not that I thought it wasn’t worth it, but I just didn’t know anything about it. All I knew was that Bratislava was the setting [...]
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My 7 links
Blog: Sophie's World - 10 July 2011
Katie at Tripbase has put together a fun, new blog challenge to unite bloggers (from all sectors) in a joint endeavor to share lessons learned and create a bank of...My 7 links is a post from Sophie's World
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Bratislava Street Art
Blog: Sophie's World - 6 June 2011
Where on earth do you find a man sticking his head up from a hole in the middle of the street, a paparazzi sneaking his long camera lens around a...Bratislava Street Art is a post from Sophie's World
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Bratislava, Slovakia and the Giant Chair
Blog: Abandon the Cube - 28 August 2010
We arrived in Bratislava that evening after leaving Vienna. We heard it would be cheaper in Slovakia than Austria, but a quick consultation with Hostel World proved otherwise. We did manage to discover that there was a large camp ground near the city. We asked for directions and followed them….almost.
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Lady in Bratislava
Blog: A Lady in London - 24 August 2010
Bratislava surprised me. When I studied in Prague years ago my professors told me and my fellow classmates that we should all go hiking in Slovakia, but that we should skip its capital city. Several students ignored their advice and did the exact opposite. They came back with tales of a small city that paled [...]
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Side Trip to Bratislava – Where?
Blog: Ron in Rome - 18 January 2010
After a very hectic Christmas Holiday Season in Rome we decided to explore new vistas… and so we booked flights on Wizz Air to Bratislava. We’d never been to Slovakia before – actually never heard of the country. The opportunity to see a new country, and be within one hour of Vienna by train, was [...]
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Side Trip to Bratislava – Where?
Blog: Ron in Rome - 18 January 2010
After a very hectic Christmas Holiday Season in Rome we decided to explore new vistas… and so we booked flights on Wizz Air to Bratislava. We’d never been to Slovakia before – actually never heard of the country. The opportunity to see a new country, and be within one hour of Vienna by train, was [...]
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12 fave hotels of 2009
Blog: Sophie's World - 12 January 2010
Still summarizing 2009, here – in no particular order – are my favourite sleeps of last year: 1. In February/March, I spent a long weekend in London and got a very good deal at Rydges Kensington Plaza on Gloucester Road. Nice hotel in a great location – a short walking distance from the museums, Hyde [...]12 fave hotels of 2009 is a post from: Sophie's World
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Bratislava, Slovakia to Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 13 September 2009
Bratislava to Sarajevo? Wasn’t it meant to be Bratislava to Thessaloniki? A cursory check that I had the right departure time before leaving the hostel for the airport alerted me to something that was very wrong. Suspends operations??? SkyEurope bankrupted, and around five hours before we were due to fly the fleet was grounded. So what to do?
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Walking wounded
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 25 August 2009
Okay, so once again I’ve changed my plans as I seriously didn’t feel like travelling this morn after another 5:00 am finish last night. I’ll take an extra night here and a lazy day in Bratislava and head to Vienna tomorrow. The appropriate hostel booking modifications have been made without a hiccup. Last night I [...]
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Liverpool y El Diablo
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 24 August 2009
Note – This post has gone up a day late as I was struggling to finish it off at 5 in the morning. I’d already heard I wouldn’t need very long to see Bratislava as it’s pretty small, this proved to be the case. Coupling this with the fact I was cream crackered from the [...]
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Return of the Red Menace: More Communist-Era Relics
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 30 July 2009
Last week I began counting down the the top ten communist relics I've visited in my travels through Central and Eastern Europe, complete with images (and bonus silly captions!).We're up to the really big structures now. Who will come in at number one? Let the gender-bending drug-enhanced socialist games commence!
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Slovakia: Austro-Hungarian Echoes
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 24 June 2008
When I studied history at high school, I was fascinated by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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