Bratislava, Slovakia
Nothing interesting I would say...
half a day is enough...
We took a bus from Vienna to Bratislava
Reading up on the Bus..so as to get a better understanding of the country and the city...
Greeted by the Bratislava Castle..
this is the 2nd "building" we saw after alighting the bus...
Nah we were too lazy to visit the castle...
went to the old town....
Got bored after a while...
it's always visiting the OLD TOWN of the city...
more or less similar to other cities' old town...
we decided to do some WINDOW SHOPPING instead...
Had our well deserved meal again
Vienna Coffee In Bratislava
Headed back to the train station
This is the 2nd worst day of our life in Europe (the first was my first day in Stockholm)
In the CORRECT Train Cabin
note that i cap the "correct"..
At first, we were early for the train..settled down at about 2050 in an empty cabin...Yeah Train will leave at 2103...
at 2058, a train conductor came in and talking anxiously using some foreign language and pointing to the end of the train...
" we were the wrong Cabin BUT the same train"
Apparently, halfway through the journey, the train will split into two...
Argh.... we frantically carried our 15kg Bag pack and ran down the carriage...
each of the 5 of us ran up a cabin to ask if the specific carriage goes to Krakow...
Suddenly, Mindy shouted " over here!! the green cabin goes to Krakow, hurry!!! Train leaving soon!"
all of us were shouting like mad while running towards Mindy's cabin...
and we made it. after a while the train set off...we found ourselves a cabin with a WEIRD UNCLE...
To get a better picture, one cabin has 8 seats (4 seats facing each other)
Mindy and fabian faced Kudus and Zhan Yun..
so the WEIRD UNCLE and I occupied on 2 seats and we were facing each other
ai yah...I was really unlucky to sit opposite of the UNCLE lah...
halfway through the journey, he changed and sat beside me... wow liao...
i felt uncomfortable, so i changed to his original seat...
then like 1 hour later, he changed again to sit beside me...
As expected lah, i changed back to my original seat...
So weird lor! he kept wanting to sit beside me...
My entire train journey was crappy, I didnt manage to fall asleep...
That's not it...
at 3am, we had to change to another train...
it was really cold... i reckon it was -5degree celcius lah.. i wore like 4 layers of sweater and was still feelin damn cold...
The transit was a NIGHTMARE!!!
we waited at the station (as in same platform) where we alighted the train...
The next moment we knew was that a train came and stopped at the opposite platform...
GOSH!!!! All of us rushed up the overhead bridge and had to climb over 2 gates(waist-height).My legs were like Jelly! Hardly can move from the cold.. imagine waking up at 3am and sprinting 250m ..
"We will be stranded in this open-air station and freeze to death if we dun run..." I thought...
This motivated me to run as fast as my legs could bring me.. i am so sure i broke my personal best record lah...somemore i was carrying a 15kg bag pack...
The train conductor didnt want to wait for us...kudus,being the first to reach the train,held on to the door and prevent the train conductor from closing the train's door...
in the meantime, i was shouting(while running like some kind of mad woman) and gesturing the train driver to wait for those behind me...and the train driver nodded...How lucky we were....
Phew....the train stopped only for like 3mins(from the time we saw it till it left the platform)...
Immediately after we boarded the train, it left....
we couldnt find a cabin with 5 empty seats... we sat outside the TOILET....
...We reached Krakow safely in the morning...
