After some relaxing and already some studying, I´m now able again to write about what we experienced on our trip to Kosice, Slovakia for new years eve celebration. I decided to split the whole story in different posts, as it would be too long for one. So, here comes Part I:
The travel
It all started on the evening of 26.12.06 at around 9 o´clock in the evening when Dan and me boarded the train to Zürich. After we talked a bit about how we celebrated christmas, we already arrived and switched to the night train to Vienna. As we realized, that our beds would be in railway cars which were pretty far apart, we decided to go to a car in the middle. We spent the next hours with some chips and beer before we already went to sleep.
At 8 in the morning we met again the platform in Vienna where we switched to the train in direction of Bratislava. After crossing the boarder we finally arrived there. First thing which caught our eye in Slovakia, was the sign “Intim Salon - Happy-a-GoGo” which we saw from the train. Happy-a-GoGo developed to one of our running gag during the next days…
In Bratislava we left the train and spent 3 hours in the city. What we saw: beefeaters wearing sunglasses, the castle, McDonalds and Coffee&Co. There Dan ordered a hot chocolate and was very surprised when he got “melted chocolate”. We found out later in Kosice, that this seems to be very common in Slovakia. At around 13 o´clock we took the train to where we arrived at around 7 pm.
Ludmila, a friend of mine, which I met in Germany, and her boyfriend picked us up at the train station. After bringing Dan to the hotel he booked before we went to her flat, where I could stay during the whole stay (Dan and Kate joined two days later as well). The evening we spent with catching up a bit and talking about Switzerland and Slovakia. Unfortunately, my friend left already next morning as the had celebration of her sisters engagement…
28th Dec - the day before it officially started
On the following day I met again around lunch time with Dan and Kate. First we went to eat something as they didn´t have breakfast yet. Afterwards we met two other ukrainian Aiesecers and went to a place called “La bomba” in order to drink hot wine. It was very funny there, because of the different discussions and question people had. Dan for example presented us his idea about toilet business in Ukraine - very interesting ;-) Then afterwards we were asked, very funny questions about Switzerland: “Do you have villages?”, “Do you have toilets on the street?” and “Do you have kangaroos in Switzerland?”
In the evening we went to have a really nice and compared to Switzerland very cheap dinner in a steak house - yummy, the beef steak was very delicious. After that we joined the other Aiesecers in a bar drank some stuff and then went to Mc Donalds because the girls wanted to have some ice cream and it was the only place still open. The boys ended up with eating apple pie - a slovak guy even bought two pies simply because there was a promotion and not because he wanted to! After that we all walked home and went to a well-deserved sleep…
Some pictures of the first day:
The castle in Bratislava
City centre of Kosice
Dan & Kate @ late night dessert
The castle in Bratislava
City centre of Kosice
Dan & Kate @ late night dessert
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Hehe SImu, looking forward to hearing some other cool stories as well..:-)
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