Bratislava is an interesting city; heavily hit by communism one side of the city is a sea of tower blocks stretching as far as the eye can see along the Danube to the horizon. Despite there efforts to bring the city into the western modern world (alike Prague) however not in the smartest way. Half of the historic old centre was massacred by a 6 lane motorway whilst endless tower blocks rise taller, as if they were to improve the city in someway.
Ive visited twice and unfortunately the eccentricity in its past is really what made the city, however street cafe's and un-neccessarily high prices smother the charm. As a result this is a city halfway inbetweet Budapest and Bucharest.
2 comments:
Tom, I think your photos are fantastic, your whole blog is really amusing and I love reading it everyday, very interesting, I think if you weren't a photographer, there could definately be a witty writer in the making! My dad was considering buying a flat in Bratislava.... I may ask him to reconsider!
Thankyou very much :) Theres some super diary like entries in 'hoare's world' too.
If your dads looking at houses Romania and Bulgaria are lovely countries, Sofia is quite a nice city - but the country side has some amazin small towns. I reckon that in ten years time theyre gonna be the place to go on holiday to.
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