zaterdag 10 maart 2012

Exploring the culture of Slowakia - Week 3 - Romina Vanhove

Hello to everyone!

Like Anneleen already said, we are now visiting Slowakia! We are very lucky that we are here in March cause now is the month with the driest weather. No raincoats needed, hooray!  


Today we visited The Slovak National Museum in Bratislava, this is probably the country’s most known museum. The museum has 2.4 million objects in its collection, which makes it one of the most important museums of natural science in Europe. The museum manages 16 specialised museums, so it’s not one big museum, but it consist out of all small departments. When we heard about the large collection, we thought that it would be too expensive to visit, but we only had to pay € 2,00 because we are students. For € 2,00 we had access to all the departments of the museum. So, we were very surprised by its cheapness. 


Bratislava is a beautiful city with a lot of different aspects. It has an historical center that’s full of old, picturesque buildings. Its picturesqueness reminded Melisa of our city Bruges. In the link under my blogpost, you can find some images of the historical center. In downtown Bratislava you can find skyscrapers and other colorful buildings, we also saw a building that was typical for the communist period of Slowakia. 


Lokse


After visiting the museum and city, we’ve went to a typical restaurant to have a quick bite. Anneleen and Julie took goulash soup, Roselinde and Anou had a Lokse (a potato pancake) and Melisa and I took Granadir (pasta with potato). We all enjoyed our meals and we really would comment them to you all! 





We were tired after all that traveling, so we went back to the hotel. The second day we visited the castle of Bratislava, it provided us an excellent view of the city. A view that blew our minds. We’re really wondering if there will be something that surprises us more during our trip, than this view! Well my time is up, talk to you later! 


With love


Romina 







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