Sunday excursion

Today I went with my flatmate Ale(jandra) and some of her friends to Bratislava.


When you are finished with your Eurotrip jokes you can continue reading the post.

Being in Budapest has the advantage of never being more than a few hours away form other countries. We took the 9:30 train and arrived in a sunny Bratislava some 2,5 hours later. The train station is located outside the city center, but since it's such a small city (some 430.000 inhabitants) it was just a 20 min walk to the Old Town center. On the way there we passed by a beautiful little palace that is now the presidential residence.


Five minutes later we were strolling around in the very cozy medieval town center. The streets were narrow and all the houses beautiful. Even when zigzagging through the area it did not take us long to reach the Danube, which is much narrower than in Budapest (and the water is clearer).


We stepped into a pizzeria and, to my great relief, the pizza tasted like pizza. The ones I've had here in Budapest are horrible! After that we went to look at a Blue Church, which turned out to be the most amazing building I have ever seen, just look at it!


After taking some 30 pictures of it we continued our trip towards the castle, once again passing through the old town center. We made a quick visit to a clock/watch museum. It was very small and located in this peculiar building.


The castle itself has been remodeled several times, in very different styles. It was destroyed in 1811 and lay in ruins until they started reconstructing it in 1953. They are still not finished...


After strolling around and enjoying the view we headed back to the old town center again, this time for a cup of coffee in one of the many cafes. I had the best chocolate cake I have ever tasted in my entire life. I wish I could beam some to you. It was just that good. Finally we strolled slowly back to the train station and spent a few sleepy hours on the train back to Budapest. We all agree that Bratislava was well worth spending a day in, especially with the nice weather. We also discussed going to Vienna in a few weeks and possibly Transylvania in January. (I have also been invited to Seville in May :D)

Assassin's Creed

Lacking the computer hardware to enjoy this game, I will instead cheer for this little beauty :D

Amusing images

Picture a group of middle aged Chinese men, in black suits and overcoats walking into a store called "Office Shoes" - which exclusively sells street shoes...

4 Druids in Bear form, standing in a row, dancing, synchronized...

Movie tip

I've been watching Heroes on my PSP, mainly because I wanted to try it out. On the con side the screen is small, but on the pro side it weighs a lot less than my laptop. So far the series has been a bit confusing to watch. One reason might be because on top of all the time-traveling and stuff I accidentally watched the pilot episode instead of the first episode, and it is slightly different. Why someone would include an unaired pilot that reveals plot-points that are not revealed until the end of the season I will never understand >_<

Tonight I watched a movie called Surrogates. It stars Bruce Willis and... ah, just check it out on IMDb. The first 15 minutes were very creepy. On the whole the movie was kind of vanilla, with some sliced banana. But no chocolate sauce though.

To clarify my analogy: The Dark Knight would be a huge bowl of vanilla ice-cream and chocolate ice-cream with lots of chocolate sauce, cream and meringue. Served with Baileys and Coffee
Vanilla is the lowest acceptable class
Romantic comedies are, if good, strawberry ice-cream
A bad movie would be described as Euro-shopper pear ice-cream *shivers*
A really horrible movie would be liquorish (I know some of you will disagree, but I think you'll understand what I mean)

Uhm, anyway. See the movie :P

Just wanted to say hello

Sitting here in my room, drinking some wine and eating Ahlgrens bilar, all by myself. I'm wondering if I have any movie to watch, or if I'm gonna play PoP - Dark Revelations on my PSP... Nobody on-line anywhere, and the germans took off to some other apartment. I'm going out with them later tonight, at nine I think. Anyway, nice picture isn't it: Computer, Candy and Wine. A slightly more "adult" version of the lonely gamer... Now I'm whining.

How come Firefox uninstalls my English spell-checking plug-in all the time O.o

My download status bar isn't working either. This makes me sad.

Ah, great lunch today! My Spanish flatmate made chicken! It was delicious... And there's lot's of leftovers! Mmm...

I really should use the American spell-checker, cause the British one doesn't acknowledge the word "movie", how annoying is that!

Big tree

I had no idea that maple trees could get this big!