Bratislava

We made it to Bratislava - whata a long trip! The flight from Frankfurt to Vienna was with Niki Lauder's airline, Fly Niki, and when we boarded the plane we discovered Niki was actually the pilot. It may have been my imagination, but it did seem like a fast, smooth flight and landing, obviously a plane is nothing after a F1 car. In typical Austrian style we started to taxi onto the runway even though some passengers were not in their seats - nothing was going to stop the plane from leaving on time. Miro's cousin picked us up at the Vienna airport and drove us to Bratislava - less than an hour. The outskirts of the city are not that attractive - just like any city but with pretty communist looking, big concrete apartment blocks. The apartment we're in is great though, really close to the centre and very comfortable. We walked to the old town centre yesterday, it's really beautiful, so clean and well preserved - we didn't see any litter on the ground all day. The climb up to the castle was steep and on the way down realised we had taken the long route. Ruby was disappointed that we didn't see the princess who she imagined must live in the castle - she was apparently sleeping. On the way back to the apartment we stopped by a new shopping centre and Rebecca and I went to Emily's favourite store, H&M. Our grocery bill seemed lower than it is in Australia - prices do not seem as high as we had imagined. Even at the airport in Vienna coffee was cheaper than in Melbourne. Off to Prague in the next day or so. Dasviedanje!