Day 6

Bratislava. Before coming here, I had pictured Bratislava to be a pretty poor place and was prepared to deal with beggers and stuff. How wrong I was. Its certainly no bustling metropolitan, but Bratislava is definitely progressing, and likes to be known as a Little Big City. Streets are clean and people are dressed really fashionably. No doubt, this might only be the case as it is the capital , and the rest of Slovakia may not be as progressive.

Went for lunch at this place the tourist office recommanded. I ordered some dumplings with smoked cheese thing, which I thought would be something like the vagdult I had previously in Budapest. Well, the dumplinds were similar but it was just way too cheesey for me.



After that went for the free walking tour. It was quite interesting to know for example, that Bratislava was once part of Hungary, explaining their rivarly to this day and that Slovakia was once part of Czech, which was way I found the language famaliar. Other than these however, the tour was pretty dull.

Went into another slovakian eatery and I must say its quite fun to order food which you have no idea what would arriveat your table. I tried to ask the waitress some dishes, but not being able to understand her, I gave up and just pointed at something on the menu. What arrived was good though. Duck with salted veggie and ginger bread ? quite a combination but definitely nicer than what I had for lunch. Took the bus back to Budepast after that.



I have thouroghly enjoyed the past 6 days in Eastern Europe. I definitely want to come back here one day more than anywhere else in Europe and see more of it other than the big cities. 20 years is not a very long time and they are still trying to shake off communistic behaviour like strong bureaucracy in Hungary, but the change should still not be scoffed at.

Day 5

Budapest! Awesome!... One of my favourite cities to date along with Edinburgh and Prague. Went for the Free walking tour in the morning and in my opinion was one of the best i've been on thus far both in terms of the guide and what it had to offer.






The walk had several 'lucky' statues. First, there was this little boy which people rub his kness and make a wish. So of course I rub la.




Then, there was this stature of a horse, which school children during the communist era used to come to rub its balls before their exams for luck but now people rub to improve their you know what. So of course I rub la.. ..not that I need.



Epic Fail Communist errected monument. Its a good thing the water comes out from the sides.



After that, went for lunch at this place the guides recommended. Had the vadgult and galuska which a Hungarian student in the group recommanded me. I was really surprised when he mentioned that he came for the tour to learn more about his city. I've no idea if Singapore has tours like this and I cant say that I will join to learn more about my city.



After that, went to the central market which sold alot of spices, foodstuff. I had no idea that paprika was a very hungarian thing. Apparently, they use a lot of lard, paprika and sour cream in their seasoning.

After that, went for a Hungarian Bath at the Széchenyi Medicinal Bath. Really nice to soak in the water and then swimming for a while.



Daytrip to Bratislava tomorrow. Too bad their match was today....

Day 4

Made friends with this kebab guy while ordering a zapiekanka. Apparently he came to Poland from Tunisia after marrying a polish girl. Oh why am I not surprised... I wont mind being a kebab seller if this happened to me. So we traded facebooks cause he wanted the photos i took of him, and then he forgot to collect money so lucky I remembered and went back. Oh the zapiekanka tasted really good and damn long man!



Went to the Cloth Hall and because the weather was lovely, took lots of photos at the market square as my previous ones were with shitty weather.






Then after that, this aeroplane started dropping paper from the sky. Apparently, an artist had collected 1 million letters from prisoners to society and was now dropping the letters over the city.



haha this building is damn fail. It used to be owned by the Boner Family, so after some individuals bought over it and decided to use it as a hotel, they called it the Boner Palace w/o knowing its meaning in english.


Caught the bus in the afternoon to Budapest. The hostel here quite shiok cause im the only one in a 2 person dorm with my own toliet.

Day 3

Aushwitz. very sad place. I'll let the peektures do the talking.








Went to a Polish restaurant for dinner, and in my curiousity ordered bloodwurst, which I thought would be some type of sausage. The waitress was like 'you know blood?' . Wiki says :Black pudding or blood pudding is a type of sausage made by cooking blood or dried blood with a filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. I din really like it cause theres this strong taste and feel like im eating blood.



Buda or is it Pest later today!

Day 2

Went for 2 free walking tours around krakow today. Main highlights were meeting the dragon and seeing schindler's factory. Is oskar schindler a hero? The guide din feel this way as apparently people had to pay him to be on his list and he asked for money again when he became bankrupt.



Met some interesting people on the tours. Met Wilson, who I recognised from the Frederiksberg field trip and went for lunch with him and his friend Kai.



Had the Gołąbki, which is like rice wrapped in cabbage with sauce.

The guys ordered some soup which was really salty.




Also met Matt, an awesome chap from Australia and has been in Europe for the past 3 years travelling and doing odd jobs after he graduated. Really inspirational imo. Hes finally heading home soon so hope to see him in Singapore when he does.

Met some poles staying in my hostel and joined them for some drinks.



Aushwitz tomorow...

Day 1

One last look at Room 203 :



So its off to Krakow! What can I say bad weather follows me whenever I travel... it started to drizzle the moment the plane landed and got heavier as the day progressed. Managed to find Hostel Atlantis pretty easily so quite glad I chose it. Once again, got pangsehed by a couch host, so last min have to find hostel.

Trying to avoid the rain.... I went to do the indoor stuff. Went to the st mary church which was quite impressive. Wanted to go to Wawel Castle next, but was stun when the sign said that tix were sold out, apparently they only have a limited number each day. The dark clouds cleared a bit when a group of polish girls gave me free hugs.



The rain was still unrelenting, so I went to the pub to grab a pint and watch the match. I'm no itlay fan, but was kinda hoping that they would go far as thats where I'd be during the final. zzzz. and more zzzz cause denmark just lost their match :( .


Wandered into a polish eatery and seeing as there was no english menu, I asked the waitress what she recommanded. She recommanded dumplings with meat and I was dumbfounded when the dumpling with meat was really just dumpling with meat... nothing more or less.


Free tours tomorrow, so hope the sun comes out =)

Day -1

The time has finally come to bid farewell to copenhagen. This is my last night in Aboulevard 44 and tomorrow its hello krakow. It seems just like yesterday that the 3 of us landed in frosty copenhagen greeted by cheery nina. The ice has melted, the sun is FINALLY here and its time to say our goodbyes. I'm looking forward to going back home and meet my good friends char kway teow and nasi lemak, but before that, the summer sends its love to me according to Sherwood.

Its Sankt Hans Aften tommorrow here in Denmark and they celebrate it the night before by burning bonfires often of witches. I was listening to "Vi Elsker Vort Land." continously on youtube for the past few days trying to learn some of the lyrics, so was quite dissappointed when they din really sing it very enthusisastically earlier at Nyhyvn.


Jeg elsker dig land






Some guy decided to have some fun and jumped into the water, splashing about before climbing back up and then jumping back in again. This time however, he removed his shorts and dived around showing his ass, before he got up.





hej hej København.