Lisa Stokes
Travel with a Bicycle Tourism and Advocacy Focus
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Bratislava – Day 10 – And Prague
Prague is utterly overwhelming, in terms of the amount of history here, building after building, street after street, neighbourhood after neighbourhood chock-full of incredible buildings. And it’s absolutely slammed with tourists. I do not remember when I was last in such crowded conditions. In some ways, it feels like a theme park. We started…
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Bratislava- Day 9 – And Prague
Last night I decided to leave the packing until this morning and to get up at 7:30. That would give me ample time for breakfast, packing, and relaxing, as our train wasn’t scheduled to leave the main railway station, Bratislava hlavná stanica, until 12:06. It is a short walk, to a short bus ride,…
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Bratislava – Day 8
The day started beautifully, warm and sunny with a temperature of 14° rising to 20° this afternoon. I was able to sit on the terrace for breakfast, and the espresso beverage machine was working again. I decided to use bike share to explore the city today, stopping when something looked of interest to me.…
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Bratislava- Day 7 – And Austria
It rained overnight which meant that the furniture on the terrace was wet, so I had breakfast inside. And, all of the espresso beverage machines were out of order this morning. So I had to have brewed coffee. But these are very minor complaints. I was surprised that espresso beverages were included in the…
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Bratislava – Day 6
Michael was very quiet getting ready and leaving for breakfast, so I didn’t hear a thing. I was aware of him coming back to finish up in the room before heading to work, but only momentarily and I fell back to sleep. I had breakfast on my own on the terrace. It was lovely…
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Bratislava – Day 5
It was another beautiful day today in Bratislava, but a bit cool to eat breakfast on the terrace. We decided to start the day at The Slavin, a memorial monument and military cemetery, which is the burial ground of thousands of Soviet army soldiers, who fell liberating western Slovakia in April 1945. We took…
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Bratislava – Day 4
We awoke to a bright, but cool day. Despite the temperature, it was lovely on the patio so we ate breakfast outside. The hotel is shaped as a triangle with an atrium that goes down to the fourth floor. The last couple days I saw this mirror sculpture from the tram, near the Justice…
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Bratislava- Day 3
We discovered when we checked in yesterday that the hotel charges €25 for a second person in the room, which we didn’t know before we got here, but it’s still an amazing deal for me to be able to come to Europe and spend only that much a night, and it includes a wonderful…
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Bratislava – Day 1 and 2
Michael has been traveling to Batasava for business for the last seven years, but I’ve never been able to go with him before because of various commitments at home. I haven’t been to Europe since 1999. This spring, with only two adult children at home, I decided to accompany him. I’ll be going for…
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Cornwall and Lac Morency -Day 8
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