June 9 Bratislava

After a quick 5 and a half hours sleep and breakfast in our cabin making the most of the view we were back on the bus. Today the wheels on the bus are going round and round to Bratislava the capital of Slovakia. Another day, another country. In the last 4 days we have been in Germany, Austria, Hungary and now Slovakia which is part of the former Czechoslovakia. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union Czechoslovakia was dissolved in 1993 into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
We had a great walking tour around Bratislava with a guide called Igor or George. It is a very lovely city with only a fraction of the tourists we encountered in Vienna. The radio receivers worked and Igor had a perfect mix of information and humour. After the tour we had one hour for a quick beer and to buy a couple of tee shirts with our kunch money from Avalon. Then it was back on the bus for the return leg of 200 kilometres to Budapest. Not much happened on the way back because we had a nap.
We got back a bit late and had to rush to happy hour to get our money's worth. We then had dinner with Tom and Chris again and a drink up on deck again before retiring.Читать далее