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2025-07-02
Today I went to Bratislava, short bus ride from Wien. First, I looked for
breakfast in the Wien Hauptbahnhof, and I found Punschkrapfen,
which is dessert.
When I got to Bratislava, my hotel reception was closed for lunch, so I went
to the neighboring square and had lunch myself. After checking in and getting
settled, I was just in time for the tourist office’s town tour. It was fairly
short, so I still had time to get out of the old town to visit a chocolatier,
Shockbons. That was not an
easy trip; Apple Maps had me take the tram to a stop that should have been an
easy walk from the store, but there was construction, and the alternative path I
took went several blocks out of the way, in the heat. (It turned out detouring
south instead of north would have been shorter.)
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| Punschkrapfen. |
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| Hviezdoslavovo námesti (square). |
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| Strigoli Con Pesto e Burrata
(fresh homemade pasta with pesto and burrata). Lunch while waiting for my hotel check-in. |
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| Punishing well. |
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| Primate’s Square. |
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| Bratislava coat of arms. |
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| Hlavné námestie (main square). |
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| Town measurement standards The bar on the right shows the town’s unit of length. The left shows how long a knife you may have in the market. . |
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| Old Town Hall. |
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| Maximiliánova Fontána. |
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| Schokocafe. |
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| Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones). |
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| Michael’s Gate. |
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| Vtáčia Fontána. Multiple levels of fountain: Low for cats and dogs, medium for horses, high for birds. |
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| Statue in wall. |
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| St. Martin’s Cathedral. |
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| Plague Column. |
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| Flags. European Union, Slovakia, Bratislava. |
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| Bratislava coat of arms. |
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| Street on way to chocolate store. |
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| Street on way to chocolate store. |
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| Neighborhood of chocolate store. |
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| Neighborhood of chocolate store. |
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| Shockbons. It was hot, and Shockbons did not have any cool packs, so I could only buy a few pieces. |
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| Lidl. This was nearby, so I went in looking for a bag of ice to keep chocolate cool. |
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| Frozen peas. Lidl did not have bags of ice, but a bag of frozen peas did the job. |
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| Shockbons. Chocolate thanks to peas! |
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| Shockbons box. |
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| Hryndzové Halušky. Slovak national dish, hryndzové halušky: potato dumplings topped with bryndza, a type of sheep’s milk cheese, served with crispy bacon. Yum. |
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Eric Postpischil.
