Bratislava:
We arrive, meet a hostel owner that rivals The Four Seasons in hospitality, and make our way out, intending to do the "3 Hour Tour of Bratislava" which can be found in the official tourism pamphlet. The weather was beautiful and we were in only our t-shirts (causing me to momentarily wonder where I had forgotten my jacket as we left a restaurant). Needless to say, the tour took us to all the most important sites in the capital of Slovakia, including:
this statue of a photographer,
this statue of the town dandy,
and "the only statue in Europe coming out of a hole in the ground."
Conclusion: there's not much in Bratislava. Much more exciting were:
these 2 pigeons mating,
this fantastic graffiti,
and ordering the "Lunch of student who want to disport himself to his girl-friend."
Szeged:
There are exactly three highlights of this trip:
- The trip was organized by BSM (that's my program) and included a colloquium lecture on "Volume in Higher Dimensions." As I've never been to a colloquium, I didn't know what to expect, but was very pleased. Turns out that the volume of a "sphere" of radius 1 in n dimensions approaches zero as n approaches infinity. There were some other interesting results as well.
- We toured the big church in town (the name escapes me at the moment). What was nice about it is that, unlike most of the notable churches around here, it is only about 100 years old. Not only was the outside constructed from brick,
- but the interior had arches and geometric decorations very reminiscent of a mosque.
It was also decorated with murals of figures from the Old Testament, which made for some good guessing games.- Breakfast at the Cow Restaurant (actual name unknown) included half-liter mugs of chocolate milk. It was so good. Also, when 20+ people walked in at the same time, the person at the counter just laughed.
Oh, and also the most wonderful playground this side of Vienna:
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-If a 'Monopoly: Bratislava Edition' is ever made, they should make the statues of the town dandy, photographer, and man coming out of hole in ground the Monopoly playing pieces/tokens.
ReplyDelete-The playground disc thing looks fun. Also, it seems your group is wearing Google colors. If you had -(2 green) + (1 red) then you'd be Google.