We spent a few nights in the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava. The smallish city has a few nice pedestrian streets, a few expensive bars lining the river, a small castle, and a “UFO Bridge.” But overall we found the town boring, expensive, and lacking much of the charm of the other cities we have been […]

From Zakopane we took a bus over the Poland/Slovakia border to a city called Poprad. Once again, to our disappointment, the border crossing was anticlimactic, with no border patrol agents and barely any indication that it was an international border. The only real clue that we had crossed over into a new country was a […]