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Taking a break in the not too distant future and which will include a a return train journey, Prague to Bratislava, looking on youtube for advice for the trains etc. This has got to be a joke by whoever did the video, see if you can spot it :hehe:
it's £80 for the return ticket in business class and with it being a 4 hour journey looks good value although the trains appear pre Berlin Wall.
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It's a difficult one, isn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
Mint tea or a skid mark on the seat!
Choices.... choices! :hehe:
(I have never been to Bratislava - so give us a 'Judith Chalmers' report when you have done.)
Wish you were here?Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
That’s the vibe I’m looking for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorcus
In return I will tell all about Brno (the Birmingham of the Czech Republic - Czechoslovakia when I was there) with the German biker gangs and nudists doing their ‘popping up’ thing (meerkats not perkiness!) in the fields around the lake!
I missed all that when I went to Brno !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Consider taking a boat on the Danube from Bratislava to Budapest for a different mode of transport.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
And beware of trains in Hungary splitting into two and being in the one that diverts elsewhere!
Will look into this if time permits we have 3 nights in Bratislava and should have made it 4 as we have been to Prague for 10 visits (of the cities in mainland Europe ive been to, it's my favorite so should have cut a night from Prague) As to the train splitting and being on the wrong section that's exactly what would happen to me and 'err' and with the following blame game with a few expletives thrown in :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
I quite like visiting places with unpronounceable and strange names which are off the beaten track. A few weeks after my visit to Nuuk in Greenland next month I'll be flying to Bydgoszcz in Poland and flying back from Rzeszow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
Going by your first sentence, you'd never leave the South Wales Valleys. What's your take on Madrid, hardly off the beaten track and a bit of a tourist hot spot (although to a lesser degree than Barcelona)Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
Madrid is quite interesting in that it's not one of the classic capitals in Europe but all the better for it (although I haven't visited the city for a while).Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
It was less of a rip-off than many capitals and had a certain honesty about it.
It used to be cheap to visit during what is normally the high season everywhere else as many of the locals decamp to cooler environments.
Spain's overwhelming jewel for me is Andalucia.
Seville, Granada, Cordoba and Ronda are a must.
I've not made it to Galicia yet but will do eventually.
Always fancied Seville, not in summer time though. Thamks TBG :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
I went to see Simple Minds in Madrid :hehe: quite liked it, IMO more interesting than Barca although i'd happily go to either again if the opportunity presents itself, our trip to Prague & Bratislava is in place of Porto, 'err indoors' didn't fancy it in the end, i would have liked to have gone but being the one who is non argumentative, i gave in and went for the peaceful life. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
We walked a section of the Camino de Santiago through Galicia last year - 110 miles over an easy nine days (three sections from Leon with the boring road bits missed out, then six days solid from Sarria to the end). I knew about the Celtic connection to Galicia but I didn't expect the landscape and the vegetation to be so like mid Wales, or for it to be so green and wet!Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
Sounds good in parts. A case of the curate's egg perhapsQuote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Some of it is great. Some of it is walking around the edges of small towns and industrial estates on hard tarmac.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
To do the Camino properly you need to start in the Pyrenees near Roncesvalles I think (the Roland and Oliver and Moors/Basques battle site at Roncevaux - see 'The Song of Roland) and walk 500 miles to Santiago. The real hard core 'pilgrims' start in southern Germany!)
The last 100 km of the Camino (the section that has to be walked in full to get the completion certificate) can get very busy too. When we did it there were more and more school groups on the trail and towards the end it was a stream of humanity!
How pleasant!! a pretty innocuous thread, good informative advice without a Guardian link :hehe: it doesn't always have to be middle/elder aged pot bellied gammons arguing over far more serious issues :thumbup: a bit of a funny incident at the bus stop a little earlier but I'll shoe horn it into a more suitable thread when a topic pops up another time.
I thought it was a student city?Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Are you suggesting there were more students than nudists or German bikers in Brno in 1987?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
I have no idea about that. Could be right. Maybe we need a Venn Diagram?