Category Archives: Austria

Bratislava, Slovakia

Friday 19th October 2018

We had read about a river cruise along the Danube from Vienna city centre to Bratislava in Slovakia, a city that neither of us had visited before. Booking on line is so easy to do nowadays that we wasted no time checking out possible round trip timings on the day we thought would be perfect weather wise, preferably not on a weekend.

Twin City Liner Cruises seemed a good option. They offer 5 different departure times from Vienna and 5 return times, with a choice of seat reservation prices. Unfortunately due to the lateness of our booking, our only option was 2 seats in the Captain’s Lounge area, €90 round trip, each. It was a little more than we had expected to pay but we didn’t intend having the opportunity again, so went for it. Continue reading Bratislava, Slovakia

Next Stop, Vienna

Wednesday 17th October 2018

Today we decided to move on. We hadn’t decided where to go until just before we left. The options we had given ourselves were either Warsaw or Vienna. The latter won on forecast temperature for the next week or so.

The facilities at Sokol Praha have been very good but it is, without doubt, the noisiest site we have stayed at so far. The nearby roads and proximity to an airport, coupled with tree cutting on the site, make finding peace & quiet impossible.

The final straw was a man with the loudest, and smelliest, leaf blower ever starting work just outside the van at 7:50 in the morning.

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