Hi guys, welcome to Bratislava! And this is Christianne from Backpacking Bananas. What we're going to
be doing today is just exploring the city. We came here from Vienna and you
have three ways of getting here. You have the train, bus or boat - which would have
been exciting, but we took the train. It took us one hour from the main station
in Vienna. And it costs 20 euros? 20 euros for a return ticket! Which is really
quite affordable. Hello, how are you? Hi, thanks! Thank you! That's not the first time that's happened. No!
We started the day off at the Kamzik TV tower which is
a really cool place. It was awesome! Right? You definitely need to go. We are on our way
We are on our way to the Kamzik TV tower which is quite far away from the train station, but it will take us
about 10 minutes in the car. And one good tip for you guys - don't get a taxi here.
Get an Uber because the taxis will rip you off knowing that you're not a local.
So... We just sat down here in the Kamzik TV tower and it is completely empty. We
are the only ones here. And I was telling Christianne actually booked the entire
restaurant. But that's not true...
The special thing about this restaurant is that it revolved. All the way around! Yeah.
You can see the whole way around Bratislava and other countries as well apparently.
Yeah apparently on a good day - which is not really today - you can see the Czech
Republic and you can see Austria and Slovakia of course. So you see three
countries from here which is insane! It's crazy. We just got our food and I have to
say even though they don't have anything vegan on the menu ,they were super nice
about it and they just created a dish for me. So that's really just really nice
of them. If you don't want to pay the extortionate prices for the 360
restaurant, you can come to the bistro which also looks really nice and has
beautiful views. Um, this is what I call a toilet with a view. Look at that! We're
just waiting for an Uber back into town but we found this little gallery inside
the tower which is quite cool. They have a lot of paintings here but they cost
400 euros a piece, so I don't think I'll be taking any home. Here he comes,
our knight in shining armour! Eddie goes fast! Now we're in front of the Blue Church - or the
Modry Kostel as it's called here in Slovakia. And it looks gorgeous. I've seen it
on Instagram before but it is even more beautiful in real life. The surroundings
however are not that impressive. So this is what that looks like, then you
just have, you know, some...
So the church is closed but we're going to look in through the window at least.
Look, everything in there is blue as well!
So we've clearly found the nice part of Bratislava. Because up until now we've
kind of been on the outskirts and now we're approaching the city centre. And we
have high hopes, because so far it looks nice but just nothing really stands out.
So hopefully the city centre is amazing. And now we're here on the main square of
Bratislava and it's really quite beautiful.
Which I have to say is a relief. Because we've heard very mixed reviews
about Bratislava. Very mixed reactions. And our reaction when we got here was also quite mixed. We got the
Uber driver who was driving us through the city and we were like... ok. But then when you walk right into the centre it's really nice.
Now we're just gonna go explore. We have no plan, we know nothing about Bratislava.
Everyone's staring at us! We're gonna stop now, bye. The one thing I've noticed about the main square
is that it's full of different embassies. So you have like the French flag right
here and there's a lot of them. So I've never actually seen this in any other
city, where they'd have the embassy right on the main square. So that's quite nice
of them. So apparently these statues are all over the city and you can do a
little trail where you just follow and find all of them.
We're coming across some pretty dubious advertising like this bar behind me
which bills itself as the hottest, most sexist and sexiest bar. Which is the
worst advertising in the world.
Alright so we have just walked up towards the
castle and now we're searching for the actual castle. And for some reason we
haven't found it yet but I promise we will. And that right there is where we were this morning.
It's here! So you walk up a lot of stairs but it's great. you get your butt a little bit toned. I prefer the
view than the castle. Yeah. Controversial opinion but I kind of agree.
Yeah. It's a nice castle though it's been inhabited since the
Stone Age. Wow! Bratislava castle, stahp it!
Now we're gonna get our third view of the day. We're going a
little overboard and we're going right there in the distance.
It's called the UFO bar and that's where we're headed next. So we're really excited and we're gonna get
some cocktails. Yaaas!
We're just making our way to the UFO Tower and it turns out
there's a lot of really pretty side streets in this area. So here are a few...
It took us a while to find it, but this is the way you go across the bridge and
towards the UFO!
We've made it to the top of the UFO Tower and the views are incredible! I'm
really glad we came at night actually. Because we got an amazing view in the
morning from Kamzik, then we've got a really great one from the castle and now
this is pretty epic. And the lights look beautiful!
Today we went from here to here and now we're here.
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