The Steve and Rick Day Trip

Last Monday Steve still had the car for a day after his and Kevin's trip to Hungry. Neither of us had anything to do so we decided to take the car and see some of western Slovakia. The first town we went to I do not remember the name but we went up to this awesome castle on a hill. What is cool about all of these towns around here is they all have castles on a hill, however out of the ones we have come across this was probably one of the coolest.

The leaves were falling on the way in and it was absolutely gorgeous.

Steve and I were greeted by peacocks that were just roaming the grounds.

The inner court yard.

We had just found a geo cash outside the walls which were huge.

On our way to Trnava, after the castle, we drove through the country side and just passed through a number of small towns. They all had very similar layouts with the church near the center of town surrounded by a couple of pubs and then the rest of it was residential.

Once in Trnava we walked grabbed a Kabab and walked around. The old town was really cool, it was entirely surrounded by a wall with this old European stately buildings. there were a number of old churches here but they were all closed. We also passed by a synagogue.

It too was closed but it was an interesting looking building. Once we had walked by all the major sites in Trnava we headed back to Bratislava by way of a few more small towns, that Steve had discovered while on his road biking trip. We saw some interesting things. I wish I had some pictures of this residential area we passed through. It was one of the few places where it looked like things were in very good repair and there weren't abandoned buildings everywhere. I think this is probably one of the nicest residential areas in all of Slovakia but 5 minutes down the road we found this.

It was so weird to go from from luxury homes to what looked like a partially demolished building and trash dump with abandoned military base and equipment across the street.

After our last little detour we headed back to the airport to return the car and caught a bus back to the city center. It was a pretty nice day and definitely worth getting up that morning. It was just a shame that we didn't do it in reverse the Castle would have probably been a nicer note to end on.