Thursday, April 26, 2012

things i'm grateful for: christmas 2011

who would have ever thought i would set foot in eastern europe? it seemed so far-fetched, but we did it. bratislava in slovakia is just an hour away by train from vienna. we took this opportunity as god knows when we would ever have this chance again.

we set off early.early being 930 in the morning.


baby got her first ever train ticket and it's now safely tucked in her baby book. it was not her first time to ride a train, but it was the first time that a train inspector actually took the trouble to hand out a kiddie train ticket.i took it as a good sign.

i still can't believe it - we were in slovakia!


this time mr t and i totally felt like tourists. baby and i stuck out like sore thumbs while mr t's german was of not use here.i remember that we just kept on walking...

and walking (if you have been following this blog, you would have noticed that we usually do a lot of walkings in our travels. it's because we (i) would usually forget the travel book we would regularly perused so many times before the actual trip. i think we just like getting lost and finding interesting places without actually having to follow a guide)...

until we saw this. we figured this was the town hall.


we edged closer, and look at what we saw!

changing of guards! look at them. they looked like toy soldiers. heh.


we saw a lot of old-fashioned trams!




thank god we saw this map! we realized bratislava was easy to navigate.


we saw a group of tourists heading north.so, yes, we followed them.

we reached this tower gate called michael tower, which has a 14th-century base, a 16th century top and an 18th-century steeple.kaya mo yan?


lots of quirky stuff on this cobble-stoned street.




but oh, it was so prettyyyy. we struck gold with the weather.



we passed by remnants of a christmas market.



baby had a blast running from one stall to the other.

meanwhile, i had a blast staring at this fountain


and at this cafe.look closer and you will see that it actually has two floors!


they seem to like strange-looking creatures over there.lol.



i love bratislava and its quirkiness! more of it...next!

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