foot prints of Napoleon

24512 Bratislava is tiny. like we hit all of the major things in town, on a 20 minute walking tour, we saw the main square, the main square, named Main Square, we say the St. Martins Cathedral

this church serves as the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Bratislava, it was actually the coronation church for a bunch of years, including the reign of Maria Theresa ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa ) on the top there, though you cant see it very well is a scaled up model of the Hungarian crown it weighs some multi hundred kilos, sits on a 2m square bronze pillow, and has over 9 kilos of gold leaf covering it. other than that, there isnt much to see here, apparently (according to wikipedia) only like 20ish% of the visitors of Bratislava stay more than one night, its a small town, welcoming, not too expensive, very quaint, but you could prolly exhaust the city in a day and a have worth of touristing. myself and a few others went to dinner with our TA Malcolm, the beer historian. we went to a brewpub that has won gold awards or some such for the last couple years. i had their bratislavský ležiak which is a lighter lager, it was delicious along with some spicy fried chicken wings, i know chicken wings arent nearly as exotic as some of the other stuff ive had, but it was genuinely spicy, which was good, cause that is generally lacking in the rest of Europe. prior to getting to Bratislava we stopped in hrad Devín. which is a castle outside the city. the castle started as a settlement in the dark ages, and then the Romans rolled in and made it a real fort, and bout the time of the Hungarian kingdom developing in the 1200s, it turned into a right and proper castle. and it stood dominating the area till Napoleon rolled in and dominated it, turning it into the ruins it is today.

other than that, most of the day was burned by travel, it took us a solid 5.5 hrs to get here, not too much knowledge to drop. ill have more stuff to talk about tomorrow in Budapest.