Shortish blog this time...
Rolling into Bratislava, I had images of that city the guys on eurotrip rolled into - run down, dirty and cold. Couldn't have been more wrong. Bratislava is wicked. It's a small town, so can pretty much walk everywhere. Beers are cheap as here, round €1.60! Our hostel gave us directions from the train station to the hostel, but after spending half hour trying to find bus 41, we gave in and tried to find help. The problem was that it took us another half hour to find the information desk! Even then, they only spoke minimal English... Turns out bus 41 stopped running to the train station a few weeks ago!
We finally checked in, and went for a wander to check out the historic centre before the second euro 2012 quarterfinal between Germany and Greece. We hit the main square and this big brass band were playing for the crowd. Sweet tunes and show, then we stumbled upon some street performance round the corner. Shit happening all over the place here, must be some festival thing on or something... There were two streets that were line with bars and restaurants. This is where we found the Dubliner Irish pub, where we spent most of our time in Bratislava! We perched here for the footy, a feed and beers. A two piece acoustic band came on after the footy finished, so we watched them for a bit then pissed off.
The next morning, we were back at the dubliner to watch the all blacks thrash Ireland in the third test. Pretty decent effort from the boys. After the game, we had another wander round town and tried (failed) to find a money exchange for our Hungary forints... That night was the big game between Spain and France in the euro. I was supporting Spain because: 1) Spain is awesome and I've just spent a month there, 2) Spain rules at football, and 3) France is shit. We thought we'd change it up and go to a different place other than Dubliner, so we went to Allstars, which was opposite dubliner, about 3 meters across the path... We ended up sitting down wit an Aussie and a South African and talked rugby for a couple hours before the footy started... Real typical... Spain dominated the footy and there weren't too many annoying frenchies around us at the pub, so I was stoked! We went out for a bit after the game, but still got back at a reasonable time.
So the rough plan from here is Austria, Germany, Belgium, Paris then back to London. May try tone the blogs down to once a week, or once a country, otherwise it's gonna get ridiculous...
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| Our train into Bratislava... jks |
We finally checked in, and went for a wander to check out the historic centre before the second euro 2012 quarterfinal between Germany and Greece. We hit the main square and this big brass band were playing for the crowd. Sweet tunes and show, then we stumbled upon some street performance round the corner. Shit happening all over the place here, must be some festival thing on or something... There were two streets that were line with bars and restaurants. This is where we found the Dubliner Irish pub, where we spent most of our time in Bratislava! We perched here for the footy, a feed and beers. A two piece acoustic band came on after the footy finished, so we watched them for a bit then pissed off. 
The next morning, we were back at the dubliner to watch the all blacks thrash Ireland in the third test. Pretty decent effort from the boys. After the game, we had another wander round town and tried (failed) to find a money exchange for our Hungary forints... That night was the big game between Spain and France in the euro. I was supporting Spain because: 1) Spain is awesome and I've just spent a month there, 2) Spain rules at football, and 3) France is shit. We thought we'd change it up and go to a different place other than Dubliner, so we went to Allstars, which was opposite dubliner, about 3 meters across the path... We ended up sitting down wit an Aussie and a South African and talked rugby for a couple hours before the footy started... Real typical... Spain dominated the footy and there weren't too many annoying frenchies around us at the pub, so I was stoked! We went out for a bit after the game, but still got back at a reasonable time. So the rough plan from here is Austria, Germany, Belgium, Paris then back to London. May try tone the blogs down to once a week, or once a country, otherwise it's gonna get ridiculous...
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