Bratislava Tourist Traps

Well, honestly to tell a story about the Venus and me :) Bratislava Castle has special exhibition of "golden treasure" all is around the Great Moravian Empire ;) For those who want to have historical explanation should read some serious books. I don't want to write essays here. As I mentioned this exhibition right above this chapter, there is the highlight - Venus. This small statue of woman (well in this century all women with such a body hurry up to fitness and on diet, or those impatient to surgery :)) is presented in every single book and I remember it from the exercise books in History lessons. So, when they finally opened the museum I ran there to see it. I entered nice interior full of great highlights but coundn't find the Venus. I circled the whole area 4 times and bodyguards started to look strange on me... then I simply asked: "Where is the Venus?" They all standing there made such an awesome face and show me the place right behind me, glass triangle with tons of lights around. Well, I looked at it and still couldn't see the Venus. Then at the top of smaller triangle inside I saw the mini funny statue such as taken from Kinder surprise and then rolled in mud and other dirties ;) I was SHOCKED. Such a small statue and that high historical value... That was real tourist trap. Since that I don't believe to pictures at all ;) Everything is different when you see it on your own eyes...

Well, yesterday I have been in this beautiful garden and remember my Japanese friends who came to visit me one year just in thin jackets. People, if you believe that climate here in Central Europe is mild, forget it... This is fresh picture taken yesterday when it was around -1 degree of Celsius and hard snow... So if you will come in the winter, even in the beginning of spring, don't forget to pack warm clothes. However, weather is crazy all the time and one day should be plus 20 and other one minus 10. El Ninjo probably settled here :)

Be prepared to pay higher tourist prices in pubs, cafes, restaurants and shops in the city centre around the Main Square (Hlavne namestie). The prices for drinks or postcards might be twice as expensive as in other places. Nevertheless, these tourist places are sometimes just nice for people watching ...

This sculpture is very interesting and not so easy to find....
You must look down from the small bridge near St.Michael´s Tower and you will see it!
In the middle of high grass and rubbish!
It is shame!

Last time walking through the town I saw the hardworking man. He was playing on some kind of instrument with both hands, both legs and blowing in the same moment.
It was crazy, because this man started to play at 19:00 and at 22:00 was still there!

Resembles an ornate piece of playground equipment more than a house of worship. The famous "Blue Church" is a delightful architectural diversion known for the blue enamel and paint. Its official name commemorates Hungary's St. Elisabeth, a revered patron of the poor who was born in Bratislava Castle. It was built between 1910 and 1913 in classic Hungarian art-nouveau style as a chapel for the adjoining Royal Catholic Gymnasium (school). Today is a popular wedding venue for locals because of its unique baby-blue hue.

Petrzalka district on the other side of river Danube.

Unique Suggestions: Visitors seeking communist monuments or relics in Bratislava are likely not to find anything substantial. Unlike other former Eastern Bloc cities, where aging communist monuments erve as points of interest for tourists, Bratislava has steadily and thoroughly done away with blatant reminders of the socialist past (outside of the Slavin war memorial, which is less a paean to communism than to fallen Russian soldiers and a pleasant place to boot.) That being said, there is no more potent visual reminder in perhaps any other city of communism´s destructiveness than Bratislava´s New Bridge (Novy Most). The construction of the bridge involved razing a large portion of the beautiful and historic old town, thus forever scarring the city with an attempt at social engineering for the masses. The endless blocks of insipid apartment buildings in the Petrzalka district also testify to the madness.

Taxi in Bratislava is a little much expenssive, i dont know why... :-) maybe the taxi meter was just too fast...

Unique Suggestions: anyways one tip to tourist ask the taxi driver 1st about the class of taxi 'coz there are 3 classes of taxi that offers different prices from low, average and high classes

Fun Alternatives: Taxi is faster but still u can take the tram....