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title: 'Day 21: Brno, CZ (via Bratislava, SK) to Dunakiliti, HU'
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date: 2022-09-14T16:32:42+02:00
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## Our trip today
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{{< image src="/img/day21/map.png" width="300px" float="right" >}}
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A short night's sleep. We got in at 2am yesterday after our caprioles with _Brno_ and hotels, and midnight charging. What we found when we
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got back to our hotel room yesterday night (err, this morning) is that the room ended up being a double after all. This is an ironic touch
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to the hectic day, because the first hotel (the one with a walk-in) actually had a double room available with a king-sized bed, but we
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skipped because spooning ain't our thing. However, this was a double with two single mattresses, so I manufactured a twin out of this room
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just before falling asleep. I slept on the tapestry bed cover as a sheet, and I slept wonderfully.
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Our breakfast had a barista! And oh yes did I make use of this service, twice even, and the caffeine was lovely. Our toast with eggs and
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orange juice were okie-dokie and after consuming the morning calories, we jumped in Tessa (hey, look, 270km on the dial!) and punched in
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_Bratislava_, Slovakia. It's not too far from here, and while Paul manoeuvres our vehicle through _Brno_ one last time, I take to the laptop
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and write up yesterday's blogpost (you'll note, I've been somewhat slow these last few days, as our internet has been not too stellar and we
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have many pictures!).
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{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-14/IMG_6014.jpg" width="300px" float="right" >}}
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I blink, and we write a bunch of words, some serious, most of them silly, into our log for September 13th. All of the sudden, Paul informs
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me that we're arriving at the _Bratislava_ supercharger, which is conveniently located at the mall. I quickly finish my last few sentences
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and insert pictures of our day, and git commit it all.
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In the mall, we do the needful at the local water closet, and on the way over there we both notice a familiar sight: A Peak Performance
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shop! We are super curious to see if we got ripped off in _Sundsvall_, Sweden, when we both bought some waterproof, breathing, Gore-tex,
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_professional_ (ahum) hiking jackets. But much to our surprise, we paid roughly 16% **less** in Sweden than here in Slovakia. Wow! We decide
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not to return our jackets, which is all the better, cuz they're still in our car and we're here.
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## Bratislava
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After we charge "enough" to get to _Wien_ tomorrow (enough is a relative term, I also tend to think we charged "enough" yesterday morning,
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and look where the day ended ...), we look for a parkinglot and are delighted to learn that Bolt and Tier are also active here. Hey, that
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rhymes! We find a parkinglot or three right in city center, and while the first one is kinda full, we score on the second one and drop the
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car there. A few meters later, the Tiers are under our feet and we scoot off into the old town.
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{{< image src="/img/day21/map-bratislava.png" width="100%" >}}
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One thing I should've mentioned earlier, scooting in Old Townses is not pleasant. They have what the Dutch call _Kinderkopjes_
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on the roads (cobblestones in English) and when barreling over these on a scooter, your hands, wrists, and watch get really messed up. We
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try our best to avoid these kidhead-shaped cobblestones, but it's not always avoidable. So while our wrists start to hate us with an ever
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growing passion, we see the following sites in _Bratislava_:
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{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-14/IMG_7922.jpg" width="350px" float="right" >}}
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* Our first port of call is Čumil (The Working Man)
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* Then, we go West to Pawerov dom (Pawera House)
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* Only to go East from whence we came, to see Farský kostol sv. Alžbety (The Blue Church)
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* But why stop here, when you can go West again, to pose with Napoleonský vojak (Napoleon's Army Soldier)
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* We stop here to eat some Rabbit, Pierogi and Garlic Soup at a local Slovak
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* And around the corner, take a look at a local celeb Schöner Náci
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* But really what we want to see is the Hhhhhhhhhh-rad (ask Paul how to pronounce "Castle"), so we go there, to find the Jewish Memorial
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* After scaling some steps (and logging a Geocache, my first in Slovakia!), we arrive at Národná rada Slovenskej republiky (National Council
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of The Slovak Republic), which is ...
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* ... just a few steps away from the famous Bratislavský hrad (Bratislava Castle)
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The castle is gorgeous, and I can see how the Slovak (Editors note: The plural for people from Slovakia is Slovak) are proud of this
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building. It's pontifical, has beautiful statues along its sides, four solid towers, and a majestic statue of king Svatopluk on horseback at
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it entry. We walk the grounds, and I find and log one geocache on a little bridge near _Viedenská brána_ (Vienna Gate), the second in
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Slovakia.
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{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-14/IMG_6042.jpg" width="400px" float="right" >}}
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We also visit Bosorka (the Witch). According to the artist, the sculpture is supposed to be a monument to all the women who were accused of
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witchcraft and you know what the result was when that happens in medieval times. It looks like the sculpture is trying to subvert the
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traditional image of a witch by depicting the woman as attractive with a luscious head of hair and scantily dressed. Beside her are a number
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of birds all staring admiringly at her. Later, we found out that it's common to sit on her lap and have somebody take a picture of you. If
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only we knew! Her lap is Pim- and Paul-less in our pictures, but we admire the artist and her work none the less!
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{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-14/IMG_6072.jpg" width="400px" float="right" >}}
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I really don't want another hotel-fiasco, so I choose wisely and (try to) select a nice hotel in _Bratislava_. Frustratingly, every hotel I
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see has either a King bed or a Queen, but none of them have twin rooms. I widen my search, and what catches my eye? A resort/spa in Hungary,
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just 20km or so away from here! Wellllll, I haven't ever gotten a geocahe in Hungary either, so it seems to me that we have a winner on our
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hands. I book the thing while Paul calls to confirm that indeed we can have a twin-room, which we can. The drive is _schnell erledigt_ and
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we end up there at around 4pm.
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{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-14/IMG_6075.jpg" width="400px" float="right" >}}
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This hotel is **awesome**. Our room is huge, we have a garden with a lake, spa access, including a luxury Finnish Sauna (heated to 100C
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temperature!), whirlpool, inside and outside swimming pool, the whole nine yards. Icing on the cake is that the 22kW Type2 charger on the
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parking lot is activated by _our room key_, no payment required. Excellent.
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For dinner, we are suggested to go just 150m down the street, to _Sári Csárda_ (also in _Dunakiliti_). It's a traditional joint with lots of
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local dishes, some I'm not too much a fan of (brain stew, and some concoction with lungs), so we stay a bit on the classic side. With Gulash
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soup you can't go wrong, and we order it with "some bread" but they bring an entire loaf of freshly baked, still warm, sourdough bread. It's
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an absolute joy to eat this stuff.
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We walk back to our hotel and sit in the back yard a little bit, before turning in for the night. Tomorrow is our last day of the roadtrip,
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we plan to go to the tri-country point (Austria, Slovakia and Hungary), and get a few Hungarian geocaches to liven up Pim's stats. Then,
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we'll drive the short 80km or so to Vienna to visit the EuroBSD Conference in which Paul is involved.
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## Pictures of the Day
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6014.jpg" caption="Paul marches into the Peak Performance store in Bratislava">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_7913.jpg" caption="Street art at our parking lot in Bratislava">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6016.jpg" caption="The Working Man (with hidden Geocache!) in Bratislava">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_7920.jpg" caption="Close-up of Čumil (The Working Man)">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6017.jpg" caption="Pawerov dom (Pawera House) in Bratislava">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6018.jpg" caption="Pano of Pawerov dom (Pawera house)">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6024.jpg" caption="0.5-Selfie of Pim at Farský kostol sv. Alžbety (The Blue Church) in Bratislava">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_7922.jpg" caption="Farský kostol sv. Alžbety (The Blue Church) in Bratislava">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6025.jpg" caption="Garlic soup for lunch">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6026.jpg" caption="Pim's slovak Pierogi for lunch">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6029.jpg" caption="Pim and Paul posing with Napoleonský vojak (Napoleon's Army Soldier) ">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6030.jpg" caption="Schöner Náci in Bratislava">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6032.jpg" caption="The Jewish Memorial in Bratislava">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6033.jpg" caption="Overview of the SNP Bridge in Bratislava">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6034.jpg" caption="Národná rada Slovenskej republiky (National Council of The Slovak Republic)">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_7932.jpg" caption="Sculpture in front of National Council of The Slovak Republic">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6037.jpg" caption="0.5-Selfie of Pim and Paul at Bratislavský hrad (the Bratislava Castle)">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6038.jpg" caption="The entrance of Bratislavský hrad (Bratislava Castle)">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_7933.jpg" caption="Corner shot of Bratislavský hrad (the Bratislava Castle)">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6041.jpg" caption="Dóm sv. Martina (St. Martin's Cathedral) as seen from the castle">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6042.jpg" caption="Sculpture of Bosorka (the Witch), at Nicolas Gate">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6045.jpg" caption="Welcome to Magyarország! We're already hungry ..">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6072.jpg" caption="The swimmingpool of our Spa/Hotel in Dunakiliti, Hungary">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6073.jpg" caption="The 100C sauna of our Spa/Hotel in Dunakiliti, Hungary<br />Paul in fetal position">}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-14/IMG_6075.jpg" caption="When in Rome, eat Hungarian Gulash">}}
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