Mon 12.Sep.2016
Bratislava, Slovakia
My last page o' pix from the Slovakian capital for this season.
The iconic landmark, Saint Michael's Gate.
A shop on Shops Street (Obchodná ulica).
Signs of cafe life.
"I don't have a problem with caffeine.
I have problems without caffeine."
Up on castle hill.
Bratislava Castle.
The New Bridge, the Danube, and the vast high-rise borough of Petržalka.
I have read that Petržalka is actually a destination for fans of Communist-era brutalist
architecture. Allegedly the biggest, most obvious collection in Central Europe of the poured concrete
high-rises known here as paneláky. I don't know whether that includes the similarly
hideous suburbs of Paris and Madrid. Maybe you need to be Communist-built to qualify.
Sunrise - start of a new day!
Start of a day trip to (you guessed it!) Vienna!
You have heard of the famous Vienna Wood? This isn't it. This is
the Prater - the part that is park, not amusement park. Yr welcome!
Still water, without even a Ripple.
Shady water.
Here is the Prater amusement park.
See the previous photo page for more of it.
Back in Bratislava. Part of Eurovea mall is pretty park-like. And like Vienna's Prater,
it sits on the Danube.
Angled, but not flipped.
This is the underside of the fountain.
Bratislava's charming, mostly Hapsburg-era Old City. A nice place to spend the rest of the page.
Main Square
Cafe sitting at the corner of Fish Square and Hviezdoslav Square, next to the New Bridge.
That is it for Slovakia for this season.
I hope to get something else up from these past few
months, before I leave California in ten days for the usual Winter in Rhodes.
Do videnia!