This is a photo journal of my recent trip to Bratislava and follows on from my post “Bratislava A Gem Along The Danube”. It was such a lovely sunny Spring day and so I kept “snapping” away until I had collected so many photos I didn’t know what to do with them all. Here are …
One of my dreams is to go to the Christmas Markets in Central Europe. Although my adoptive homeland of Australia has many wonderful attributes I never feel it is quite Christmas when it is hot. Somehow it doesn’t seem right to be thinking of going to the beach on Christmas day or planning what to …
Bratislava was a place that I knew little about growing up in England. It was somewhere behind the Iron Curtain, a part of Czechoslovakia in those days, and no doubt drab and dreary. However our curiosity was piqued when we kept hearing about a place called Pressburg or Pozsony (to give it it’s Hungarian name) …
The “it” coffee to order in most Viennese cafes we discovered is the “Melange” which literally derives from the French word meaning “mixing” or “blending”. Since I don’t drink much coffee Monsieur Le Chic made it his business to sample as many as he could during our few days in Vienna and it soon became …
One of the privileges of staying in the Boscolo Hotel in Budapest (Erzsebet korut 9), is that we got to take breakfast (sounds more refined than “having” breakfast) in the magnificent and opulent setting of The New York Cafe. Now beautifully restored to its former glory the hotel provides a breakfast buffet of spectacular proportions …
A selection of some of the local dishes on offer. Of course you can get anything you like in Budapest it does have all the usual cosmopolitan eateries you’d expect in a modern city but if you want to try local stuff be prepared for hearty goulashes and stews they definitely don’t hold back on …
Budapest in 4 days (well 3 really once you take into account travel time, airport transfers etc). Budapest is actually 2 cities, the more hilly and older Buda and the much flatter and more modern Pest. As independent travellers it took a day or so to get our bearings. The language is incomprehensible and apart …
Le Chic En Rose 