Slovakia

Approaching Bratislava we were happy to see not one but TWO bike lanes AND a roller blade lane! The heat had the Slovakians riding and skating around in their underwear in true European style, leaving us to ponder whether they left their inner city flats half dressed or stripped off along the way.

Bratislava itself was unimpressive architecturally (by European standards). There are many concrete commuinist style blocks and parts of the old town and city wall were decimated to make way for this:

Novy Mesto (new bridge)

Despite the good cycle paths leading to Bratislava we managed to get lost on the way out of town. It was only a few kilometres to the Austrian border and then a route with frequent signage throughout the small eastern chunk of Austria we traversed.

Sovakian-Austrian border Bratislava Castle in the background, hitchhiker and border guard