It was a bit weird for us that a return ticket was cheaper than one way, but in the end it was for the best. We went to our train and we actually had our own little compartment, so some of us were trying to sleep, some of us were enjoying the view and some were listening to music or just lost in thoughts. We reached Slovakia, Bratislava to be exact and bought our tickets for Vienna to go there on the evening and since we had a fair amount of time, we checked out Bratislava (that was the plan after all). Bratislava actually looked quite...dead and empty. It looked like we were in an intro of a movie about a post-apocalyptic world. But soon we reached the old town and we saw people (yay!). We had a coffee and then we climbed to the castle. I can tell, I was expecting a bit more from the inside exhibition, but I guess not much was left after the fire. We also stopped at the info center where we asked a pretty receptionist what we should check out. We went into some church because "it ain't a trip if you didn't go into a church" as one girl said. Mostly we just walked around the old town. Before the train we decided to go to a bar and have a proper shot of traditional Slovakian drink. I am not kidding, we actually went into the bar and went sort of like Bender style: Hi, hello, excuse me, what is your cheapest, strongest, most national drink? Five of those, please.
In the evening we went for the train and headed to Vienna. There we bought a metro card for 24 hours and went to the center to find our hostel (we were staying in Hi Hostel, I recommend it for sure, we loved it!). After we unpacked out bags in our room (there was 5 of us, so we got a room just for us!) we decided to head back into town and look around and have a beer. We wandered the streets, had a curry sausage, had our beers and went back to the hostel. Next morning we checked out (tip: you don't need to take a towel, if you're sleeping in a hostel, you can just use the sheets, they wash them anyways after you use it), and went to the center. We went to Sisi museum (take the audio guide - totally worth it!), climbed st. Stephan's church tower (great view) and got stopped by awesomely dressed guys who were inviting us to a Mozart concert that night and asking us not to go. We practiced our German, which was not that bad actually. Of course, we couldn't leave Vienna without eating schnitzel and strudel, so we had a lunch stop and later a coffee-strudel stop right before our train back.
When we got to Bratislava again we saw that our train to Budapest was late. We had to wait two or three hours, can't remember for sure, so we bought some snacks for the ride, we took a group photo and finallyyyyy our train was there. I think the waiting made us a liiiittle bit crazy. Why do I say that? Well, we found a little room in the train again and...We put all of our drinks and snacks on the little table and then we heard something rattling. There was the sales person passing by: he just looked at our snack table, smiled and passed. And did we just let it slide? Well, guess who started shouting to the guy "Waaait! We would like to get some chocolate frogs, please!!". *raises hand* We also were hitting on every guy who happened to pass by, we put all our jackets on one of the seats and called the pile our imaginary friend "Jacket de Balaton" (try saying it as French as you can), we were singing, the Dutch girls knew a song about the train, we were walking through the train trying to rap and sing...It was mental. But it was hell of a fun. And I would do it again in a heart beat.
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