On December 20th, I had a day trip planned to Bratislava, Slovakia. I've had lots of people look at me like I was crazy when I said Bratislava and asked "where's that". A little geography/history: Up until 1918, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but that year it broke apart as part of Czechoslovakia. In 1993, it split with the Czech Republic, and Bratislava became the capital city of Slovakia. Slovakia is surrounded by Czech Republic to the west, Austria to the southwest, Hungary to the south, Ukraine to the east, and Poland to the north. It's only about an hour train ride from Vienna, so I decided to just make a day trip of it. I had read mixed reviews about Bratislava, but I was pretty excited to go. There isn't really a guidebook dedicated to it, it's just an chapter in Budapest or Vienna books. I didn't have a great map, so I planned to hit up the TI once I got there to get a better map. I took a taxi from the train stat...
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