Train Prague to Bratislava

[Heathblue]

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
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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[jon1959]

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
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.

Train.jpg

It's a difficult one, isn't it?

Mint tea or a skid mark on the seat!

Choices.... choices!


(I have never been to Bratislava - so give us a 'Judith Chalmers' report when you have done.)

[Dorcus]

It's a difficult one, isn't it?

Mint tea or a skid mark on the seat!

Choices.... choices!


(I have never been to Bratislava - so give us a 'Judith Chalmers' report when you have done.)

Wish you were here?

[jon1959]

Wish you were here?

That’s the vibe I’m looking for.

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!

[Heathblue]

ThatÂ’s the vibe IÂ’m looking for.

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 !!!

[Taunton Blue Genie]

It's a difficult one, isn't it?

Mint tea or a skid mark on the seat!

Choices.... choices!


(I have never been to Bratislava - so give us a 'Judith Chalmers' report when you have done.)

Consider taking a boat on the Danube from Bratislava to Budapest for a different mode of transport.
And beware of trains in Hungary splitting into two and being in the one that diverts elsewhere!

[Heathblue]

Consider taking a boat on the Danube from Bratislava to Budapest for a different mode of transport.
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

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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

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.

[Tuerto]

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.

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)

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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)

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).
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.

[Tuerto]

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).
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

[Heathblue]

Always fancied Seville, not in summer time though. Thamks TBG

I went to see Simple Minds in Madrid 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.

[jon1959]

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).
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.

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!

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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!

Sounds good in parts. A case of the curate's egg perhaps

[jon1959]

Sounds good in parts. A case of the curate's egg perhaps

Some of it is great. Some of it is walking around the edges of small towns and industrial estates on hard tarmac.

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!