Sound advice from our taxi driver in Vienna. Although it was a colder, rainy day, we walked to the Town Hall and St. Stephen’s Dome. There are crypts at St. Stephen’s that I read about in an article titled “Unusual Things to do in Vienna.” And you all know by now how much I love to do the weird, unusual, supernatural things where ever I go.
Vienna is still stunning in the rain. Like the Boss Lady of Austria.
There were no photos allowed inside the crypts so you’ll have to settle for one of the stereotypical church ceiling. The crypt tour is worth the 6 euros entrance fee. It even leads you underneath the plaza outside of the church. And stacks of bones is just macabre enough to be cool.
We took the train to Bratislava, Slovakia and Country #22 for me! Yes, I had to google where it was when Danielle said we were going there. My style of traveling for this week with her is to let her decide where we go, what we do, and when we do it. I’ve been that person for 57 days or so and it’s nice to let someone else (who I trust) be in control. We arrived in Bratislava and with a little mishap on dates for our train tickets to Country #23, we got into the sketchiest cab ever. He delivered us to our hotel just fine but he made a call in the middle of the ride and I swore he was calling an associate to take over the kidnapping of 2 rather cute American girls. I know, I know. It’s not fair to think the worst of people but my guard is usually up when my intuition has the slightest inkling of danger.
Bratislava is definitely communistic looking. I don’t know if that’s a real word but the buildings in our area are not old or colorful. And we can see a radio tower of sorts in the distance. However, after you make the turn at this sign, the city starts becoming very reminiscent of Europe – cobbled streets, tram lines and quaint buildings.
Old town charm….Bratislava isn’t so grey.
After exploring Old Town, we found a restaurant that served Slovak food and didn’t have pictures of said food displayed. A tip from one too many a tour guide: Never eat at a restaurant that has pictures of food displayed. We had a really fun dinner full of beer, amazing food (hello sheep cheese dumplings with bacon) and oh so many laughs. We even came up with our top 10 list of the tourists you see in Europe.
May I present our combined list:
- The spatially unaware person [My biggest pet peeve]
- Multi-generational Chinese family [Danielle’s worst offenders but directly related to Item #1]
- Instagram self model in weird clothing and trying to look “hot.”
- Sneaky photo person
- Fendi-toting women covered head to toe. They scream, look at me, but don’t. [You can’t actually see the fendi but you know it’s there.]
- Japanese doll girl – she doesn’t sweat, wears bright red lipstick, white face powder and platform Mary Janes.
- Gypsy pant, dread-locked, pierced backpacker
- The 1,000,000 photos of the same thing lady
- The 20 questions girl – “what’s that” [as she points to a bear shaped container of golden syrupy sweet goodness, aka honey]. “It’s honey.” “Is it any good?”
- The Talking Italians.
There She Goes... 