Exploring Bratislava

William enjoys a breakfast of eggs and sausages or bacon, which isn't all that easy to find in most European cities, and Bratislava is no exception.  Google maps finds a couple of places in the Old Town, so that's where we walk.  The café that we choose has eggs, but is a little more foo foo than we expected.

After breakfast we walk back past the ApartHotel Virgo and continue up the hill to Bratislava Castle.  The castle was constructed in the 9th through 18th century, then reconstructed in the 1950's and 60's.  We walk around the castle and enjoy the views then return to Old Town.

We walk along the old city walls to St. Martin's Cathedral.  We've been enjoying it's towering spire since we arrived in the city.  The interior is beautiful, and it is easy to image the pageantry of the coronations which occurred here over the centuries.

We're hungry.  We walk past Cumil (the Man at Work statue) and find Koliba Kamzik restaurant for a late lunch.  The place is picturesque, with it's checkered tablecloths and the food is wonderful.  We roll out the door feeling very full.

As we walk through the Old Town we come across Cuba Libre Cigar bar.  William cannot resist.  He buys a couple of cigars and we sit down in the lounge while he smokes one and we sip on Oban scotch.

​We head back the the ApartHotel to relax.  We aren't hungry until 8:30 pm.  We stop in the local bar/restaurant and quickly find out that they (and most restaurants) stop serving food at 8 or 8:30 pm.  Flashback to Ireland where we had the same trouble getting dinner after 7 pm!  We walk down to the corner mini-mart, pick up some cheese, salami, rolls, wine and beer.  We'll picnic in our hotel and watch Netflix.