Bratislava Castle

It had to happen.
50 days with barely any rain….& today that ended ☔️
We had a slow start, but wrapped up against the cold rain & set off to visit the quirky Galéria Multium. A tiny gallery with a handful of small rooms with quite stunning optical illusions. Great to see it was not created by a physicist or artist, but by an IT bloke!
On up to a very wet Bratislava Castle. An impressive slab, evidence dates back to hundreds of years BC, but from 1811 until 1953 it became a ruin. It was finally rebuilt and houses some exhibitions of the Slovak National Museum.

With it being so wet, you’d think we dropped inside for a look.
Well, the ticket office was like the Marie Celeste. We were forced to amble around the grounds, getting steadily more drenched.
After some moist photos, we headed back down the hill to the old town.

On our way down, a chance for Google Translate to shine: two people coming up jabbered at us in Slovak…..I said “sorry”, then held the phone up and got the young man to repeat it into that….they were asking if it was the route to the castle…..I spoke into it and it told them (in Slovak!) “yes it is, but it looked closed”. I am now a local tour guide, anywhere in the world 💪

We briefly ducked into St. Martin's Cathedral, but there were roaming gangs of clergymen, so we headed back outside. On a nicer day, we might have walked the walls, but today we needed to get inside.

After a walk through the old town, we discovered Funki Punki: great value for a delicious soup and pancakes….but maybe choosing the Elvis was a tiny mistake…who knew that peanut butter, blueberry jam and plum tomatoes might be a weird combo 🤪

With postcards written, we headed to the Post Office for some stamps. What a fabulous building inside! Beautiful ceiling and ornate wooden teller windows.

Back at the apartment, we could finally warm up and dry off. Some admin and highlighting our adventures in the map, then the last of Frank’s beer and a few episodes of Queen Charlotte to round off our evening 👍Read more