Wow, what a day. So a couple of days ago, I found out that one of the girls on the trip needed to go to Bratislava in Slovakia to try to get a visa to stay longer than 90 days in Austria. (She was going to stay after the program). There was a few of us that decided to make a day trip out of it because Bratislava was only an hour away and a roundtrip ticket on the train was 16 Euros. So we met at the train station about 8:30am and headed out!
When we got there we realised that we hadn’t quite prepared for the cold, but tried to make the best out of the situation anyway. We took a bus into the old city. It was beautiful. It was so fun to walk down the streets that so many have walked down. There were tons of little shops and restaurants to explore. We spent quite a lot of time just looking around shops.
We then headed to lunch where I got “Crispy Trout with bacon and mushrooms.” I didn’t think anything of my order until the waiter put in it in front of me. I honestly had a really hard time looking at it even though I knew it was going to be delicious. The whole fish was on my plate, tail, scales, head, eyes, spine, everything. Brock saw that I was having a hard time with knowing where to start so he offered to cut the head off so I didn’t have to do it (gag). After all that nasty stuff was done, it ended up being so good! Plus they had gluten-free bread! Win!
After lunch we went to go explore the castle. We ended up just walking around the castle walls and through the courtyard because we found out there wasn’t much to see inside. It was a beautiful view though and a pretty castle.
We actually ended up running into some sister missionaries on our way down from the castle. We spoke to them for away. One of them was from Utah and the other was from Virginia. They gave us some recommendations on where to go and what to eat. It was fun to be able to see them!
We went into a few churches and then we went to the UFO tower. The UFO tower is a tower on a bridge in Bratislava. It literally looks like a UFO. There is an observation deck at the top and a restaurant (that is super expensive). The view from the top was beautiful. On one side was the old city which I considered to be a lot prettier than the other side which looked more modern and Russian. We stayed up there for about an hour which was really fun.
Something that was different was when we went to the restroom, the room that has the toilet had a window out to the city. Like… the entire wall was a window which was kind of odd and a little uncomfortable. Haha! And there was vinyl on the window that said “Enjoying The View?” which made it that much more uncomfortable/funny.
We ended up just wandering through the old city for awhile then headed back onto the train. It was a long day, but overall pretty successful. It was fun to be able to say that I’ve been to Slovakia, but I think I’ll stick to living in Vienna for now. ;)
Until next time!
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