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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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Salt Caves For Natural Health
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 12 December 2009
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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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Tokaj and Füzér, Hungary
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 29 August 2009
Tokaj; a great little town. Population is around 2000 which is just a nudge over the number of people in the town where I spent my formative years in Australia. Famous across the world for their wine, the Tokaj Aszu even gets a mention in the national anthem, not bad for a drop of grape juice hey?
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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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The Unicycle Diaries 3: Slovak Mountain High
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 24 March 2009
From my travel diaries written in Slovakia last year, wherein I wander through the mountainous mist and learn about nudity etiquette in spas... Wed 18 June 2008
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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.
