Long weekend in Bratislava

Last week I spent four days in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was all in all my fourth visit there in one year, so it seems it is becoming a familiar place to me (I must admit I feel really well in it).

The trip did not have an easy start, but I would describe the incident in the security check in the aiport in a different post, because it was so bizarre that it deserves its own minute of glory.

Once on the plane, we were placed in the wrong row: row 14. I warn you: avoid row 14 when flying with Niki from Frankfurt to Vienna. Let me explain why: the service on board was divided in two: from row 1 to row 14, and from row 15 to row 28. So, we had to wait almost 45 minutes for our strange sandwich and, then, as the flight Frankfurt-Vienna is not very long, it was time to land. So, when the crew was announcing that we should put our table in vertical position, we were starting to bite our sandwich, hungry like piranhas in the Amazonas.

But we managed to survive this strange flight. Once in Bratislava, we went to Cunovo and Danubiana. Cunovo is near the border with Hungary and it is place for training of kayaking and similar sports, where Slovakia seems to be quite strong. Danubiana is an open air museum of modern art, in a peninsula over the Donau, which has interesting works (to the extent possible, remember it is a museum of modern art) and, needless to say, offers spectacular views of the Donau. At this point, I would like to make a short mention to how a real river looks like and not what we have in Guadalajara, be it Henares or Ablanquejo.In Bratislava, I could find this time a lot of tourists in the city centre (and even a flying-man, see picture above), so it seems that the city is becoming quite trendy now for visitors. This time, as I am becoming familiar with most of the tourist attractions of the city, we had to innovate and we went to a museum with a strange passage: it has books piled on both sides and, thanks to a lot of mirrors, it gives the impression of being a neverending pile of books. It is really interesting from an optical point of view.
The rest of the time was devoted to non-touristical actitivies such as going shopping to a commercial center or to go bathing to an indoor swimming pool. In this sense, we were passing very often by one of my favourites features of Bratislava: a bus-stop on top of a bridge. I simply cannot help loving it, that is so amazing!

In approximately one month, I will be back to Bratislava, for business reasons. Let's see what I report then...