where jordan and emily we spent the last
three years saving as much as we could
with the mission to spend it all on
seeing the world we've been traveling
for 138 days so far and have made quite
the dent in our savings so today we're
trying to stick to our budget while we
explore beautiful bratislava slovakia a
country we thought we'd never been to
before
yesterday we got a flix bus from krakow
down to bratislava and spent the rest of
the day behind our computers researching
what there is to see
turns out there's a lot to see we don't
have a car though so we've put an
itinerary together that's going to take
us to all the main sites in one day in
the interest of saving money we ended up
staying quite far away from the city
first thing we need to do is catch a
train
catch a tram all the way into the city
the only thing i know for sure about
slovakia or bratislava more specifically
is that there's a blue church we should
get to see at some point today and a
traditional food is fried cheese so wait
it's fried cheese on french fries yeah
and that's traditional food
that's nice yeah
oh my arm's so small
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we were hoping at the station there
would have been like a place to buy your
tickets and since there wasn't one at
the station we thought that there'd be
one on board we pressed the buttons a
bunch
it didn't seem to work it didn't take
our card i think you have to have a
ticket before you hop on
but we couldn't buy one at our stop so
we may or may not have had a
ticket whoops after that stressful tram
trip i think we deserve an iced coffee
don't judge us
since leaving italy we've kind of given
up on trying to find good coffee because
they're
hit and miss
so we've put them to one place where we
know it's gonna taste like
macas
also they do bagels for breakfast here
so we may or may not have gotten them as
well
should we have gone somewhere more local
and more traditional yeah
did we make a bad decision yeah will we
make it again
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welcome to saint michael's gate
which is under construction this was
stock number one yeah
in medieval times this whole town was
fortified by two massive walls and there
were four massive gates at each corner
this was the smallest of the gates and
the only one that's still standing
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but we don't get to see it apparently it
was the least used one it was pretty
much only used by the local fishermen to
go in and out the gate does lead through
right down into the center of the old
town but we're going to get there later
because right now we want to go to the
bratislava castle which is one of the
main attractions here in bratislava i
can't believe that's like yet another
thing or place that's under construction
it seems to be very popular to do some
construction during summer 2023 is going
to be awesome
that way
i'm so good at directions
it's crazy
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i wish instead of mackers we would have
brought a picnic up here and had it with
this amazing view it's such a cool
little area there's like all different
seating options there's bench seats so
you can look out over the view but they
also have these like picnic style seats
and look at these gorgeous trees how
much better would that have been than
mcdonald's
and probably a lot cheaper too
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this is bratislava castle i think we can
go in because nowadays it's actually a
museum but it is huge there is something
beautiful about the white walls the red
roof set against the blue of the sky and
the green of all the trees one weird
thing we've noticed
all of these statues
don't have hits so they have a hat on
but it's just like a stick and then a
hat
and it looks really weird
i guess these days the interior
courtyard of the castle is used for
shakespeare's
probably other stuff as well but at the
moment it shakespeare place
bratislava castle was awesome there's
something about castles that gets both
of us like really excited i think it's
because australia doesn't have them so
it seems so foreign and historic and
exciting but now we're going to walk all
the way down over here somewhere to go
back to the old town
there is not a cloud in the sky
it looks so fake doesn't it it looks
like do you remember microsoft paint and
you used to like drag the color to fill
in a background that's what it looks
like
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old town is so freaking cute with all
these beautiful buildings it kind of
reminds me of poland because they're all
like colorful but they also have these
really cute city tours which i think is
what this map is about and you go in
these weird carts
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really big attractions not really sure
why the little
statue in the sewer there is called
cecil i probably am pronouncing that
wrong but it starts with a c don't know
why it was built but apparently it was
meant to show a lazy communist worker
who was taking a break from work and
looking up girl's skirts
and the legend is that if you rub his
head and make a wish as long as you
don't tell anyone ever
that wish is supposed to come true so
we're like racking up the wishes on this
trip which is great
uh make sure you bring water in because
this was two euro in the center of town
a lot and a beer is one euro for half
liter sometimes
we've just had a realization that we may
have been to slovakia before
we did a top deck in 2017
i think it was and that was obviously
really quick paced so i have a feeling
if we did come here it was just for a
few hours on the drive to somewhere else
and it's just left our brains
yeah so we've been here before
how do we not remember that we've been
to this country before like because all
we have is six or something photos to
look back on that you never look back on
really but making videos it's such a
good way to remember this time in our
lives
and now hopefully we won't forget we
have been to bratislava twice
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it just
blows my mind that we could forget
something like that like top decks are
amazing because you move so quickly i
guess that's what happens you forget
countries
so maybe we don't remember last time we
were here because we didn't go to some
of the main sites definitely didn't go
to the castle and we didn't go to the
blue church which is where we're going
to now first we're going to stop off and
get some traditional food though
fried cheese
i'm so excited i can't believe that this
is traditional food
because this is a traditional place the
menu is obviously not in english which
we love luckily we downloaded slovak on
google translate so i can translate it
on my phone i don't know what people did
before this like you just have to talk
and hope someone here spoke english the
um fried cheese
i don't know how you say it sorry yes
yeah and then the schnitzel so ordering
was a bit tricky which is what we expect
when you get to come to a traditional
place and it's kind of why we love
coming to traditional places
apparently we're getting a chicken soup
because it's part of the menu i don't
know what that means but we get to try
chicken soup so that's nice
i'm not a super i don't really eat soup
very often
it's actually really nice
wow
cheese and chips
my mouth's watering
it came out so quick here the service is
awesome
it's as amazing as you expect it to be
it is so hot and fresh out of the
kitchen but it is so salty and delicious
and the outside is so crispy and hot
and of course fries
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that pork is so tender again the coating
that they've got on that is so salty and
crispy it's amazing and that is a cold
potato salad
which is beautifully creamy
and has all these herbs in it
really good
traditional slovakian food who knew
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that was delicious and filling really
philly
now we finally get to see the thing that
we knew about bratislava before we got
here even though this is the second time
we've been here
how cool is that
it's so striking like the blue and the
white contrast
and then all the curved walls really
cool
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trying to go inside of the blue church
but it's closed at the moment
the inside is just as blue as the
outside the
apparently there's no significance to
the blue i thought there would be a
reason behind it
not that i could find so jordan's just
calculating how much we've spent today
which is something we do like to do
because obviously we're trying to stick
to a budget because once our money runs
out that's it
the budget and the financing of the
whole trip is something we think about
24 7 so we wanted to be more transparent
with it and it's just something we think
about so often we want to remember where
we were at at each point in the country
and how much that country cost and all
that stuff because it really does
interest us so the end of each video
we're going to roll down how much money
we've spent and show you exactly what is
left the goal is just to see as much as
possible before that number is zero
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