TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Monday, November 28, 2005

8:20 PM
Posted by jodi rose

slovak muses - the song, pastorale, ballad - slovakia as a country of soul - loneliness, landscapes, solitude - drink boys, drink the slovak symposium - wanderer, world vagrant, tinker.

thursday/friday sturovo - bratislava

wake up early, manage to purchase local sim card - txt now only 2 sk each instead of 55p (ie AU$ 2/23 c vs $1.30)
brave the very smoky dingy yet strangely appealing coffee shop at sturovo stanica (railway station) blue plastic flowery table clothes and red painted tin walls with a dozen men drinking beer and cognac at 11am, coffee turkish strenght and very sweet but drinkable.
visit the slovak nation gallery, exhibition on slovak myth. excellent ordering into various categories - will update from notebook later. new favourite painters ludovit fulla and janko alexy.
re-find my old favourite haunt in bratislava from 2002 - 24 hour trip - cafe verne, plush velvet lounges, radical intellectual vibe, enjoy hanging out reading for a few hours.
meet elisabeth in bratislava for trip to winter market, which is just setting up but the hot wine shop already open - fine sense of priority!