This is my first trip to Bratislava, a city that I will make my home from home for the next 3 months. From Vienna, it is a skip and hop across the border to Bratislava, passing many wind turbines on the way. The city is a forest of rectangular buildings, probably a legacy of the Communist era. What took me by surprise is the multi-lingual ability of the population: the locals that I have come across can speak at least 3 or even 4 of these languages: Slovakian (of course), Czech (from the days when Czech Replublic and Slovakia were one nation state), Russian, and Polish. Two things stand out: friendly people, crap roads.
And, the Slovakians do have a summer, which completely passed UK by. It was warm - 30 degrees C and humid, almost like an Indian summer.
The border between Austria and Slovakia
Bars and restaurants line the pedestrianised
area along the River Danube
The square at Eurovea Galleria
