Bratislava, Slovakia

[hkskyline]

More pretty buildings await. Although the design is simple, the colour arrangements and maintenance add to the simplistic beauty.

As the sunset approached, it became difficult to take pictures as it got too bright.

Some parts of the street were no longer lit up, hence despite the daytime feel, parts of the scenes may be too dark to capture.

The sunset offers opportunities to take some silhouette-type photos, although this one doesn't seem to achieve that perfectly.

Bratislava's old town is quite amazing. Time was not on our side, and soon we had to leave, but we tried to cram as much as we could during our short trip.

A man-made waterway adorns a small park that is edged between buildings.

This new building offers quite a contrast, but does match somewhat with the surroundings, such as building height, simplicity, etc. We can't stop progress, but can certainly mitigate the clash of worlds through design.

 

[Mustapha]

Beautiful. If you have time could we see some street level shots of the various shops?

 

[hkskyline]

The train station is about a 10 minute walk from the old town. Let's start walking.

I like these tidy newstands.

Although some of these buildings need restoration, in general, the old town is quite well maintained.

The president lives here - between the rail station and old town, with a pleasant garden behind it.

We do see some modern new buildings but the old town is quite well preserved.

We're nearing the old town. Notice the historic tower in the distance.

The streets were fairly clean.

Lovely scene. The tram tracks are on level with the pedestrian areas, so we had to check around extra carefully.

I guess that means pedestrian zone?

Reminds me of Prague's trams.

Darn .. the sunset is imminent and we haven't entered the old dtown yet!

We're in!

How far are we from the rest of the world?

We were quite excited seeing how lively the streets are inside the old town. There is one major street [pedestrian-only], and a number of alleys, which seemed quite safe to venture about. The buildings were well-maintained with many shops and open-air restaurants.

I guess steaks and fishes are in English.

Due to the decreasing light, we had to adjust our photo-taking angles a bit. I wanted to make the building glow after a little Photoshop work.