Austria

I'm not used to be an early bird, but from Bratislava to Wien the train leaves at 9 am and we were in one place quite far from the station. We woke up had our breakfast packed our bags and got our way to the station.
Few minutes before the train leaves I'd hop off the train to change some money that had left, whereas as soon as I'd stepped down the train closed the doors, I was in one of the last waggon and I had to run fast as I could to hop on in the first one. I almost missed the train.
The way is beside Danube river and were a very pleasant trip, in our cabin were me, Julia and one Mr. who works as a host in cruises, he is that guy who sleeps, sorry, dance with the single ladies. As he told, he had to dance with "the good, the bad and the ugly", very interesting person, he had travelled for 70 countries in the last 7 years, he has a passenger cabin and works from 7 pm to 12:30 pm only, with 30 minutes for dinner and U$20 allowance on the bar. he didn't has space to put stamps in his passport.
We arrived at 2 pm, and got our way to the hostel we had booked on internet. It was far from the city centre and on one hill 800 metres from the metro station.
That day after checked in we went in Freud Museum, one house were he lived and wrote the most of his works in psychiatry. After there we went in the centre and saw St. Stephan Platz and his cathedral.

The next day was like children day, we had to wake up early again because the breakfast was until 9 am, imagine that, from 6 to 9 am, and the dinner was from 5 to 7;30 pm, it's a kids hostel.
In the other hand was good, we were in front of "Sisi"castle at 10 am and we had such a good time there, the castle wasn't as huge as Versailles but, for me, was more beautiful than the other. Inside the castle has one room made by lac, simply amazing. The gardens were nice too, but small for who had been in Versailles before.
After there we went on the river's beach where many girls were doing top less and many people barbecuing on the banks. I felt I was in some kind of Brazilian beaches were the poor people go to have a nice day on the beach and came back in the evening in a car full of people playing samba inside the car. But was nice to see that, because showed that even in Europe people like the same things.

the last two days, we went in another castle from Habsburg Family, these rich people, and in one building where the architect make something strange, he mixed nature and architecture, I had mixed feelings about that.
The last afternoon we went in one private swimming pool, were where for children and we spend a lot of money. Was good for refresh ourselves, that day was 32 degrees Celsius.

Slovakia

Have you heard about Bratislava?
I've been there for 2 days, even in the t-shirts they sell there had sentence "where the hell is Bratislava?"
We had got our train pass wit 5 days to travel and we were going to spend only 3, and we had decided to go there to see some city off the beaten path .
We got the train to there and the trip was pleasant, half way was beside the river with nice views from the bank.
When we arrived there we saw that the hostel ( wasn't a hostel, was a student accommodation just like the buildings in the old socialist world, without any beauty ) was quite far from the city center, and the receptionists lady didn't speak English at all.
The building was quite trashed and too big with everything in that such difficult language but we stayed there anyway.
The transport was really good and the city small enough to explore in these 2 days.
The day after we spend in the city center, as the one before, and we spend half day in the castle where use to be the capital of Austrian Hungarian empire, read Habsburg family HQ. Although the castle looks as an old prison and the museum inside was like a museum in Brauna (city in the Brazilian country side with 5000 people living) if they had one there. The floor was in cold square ceramic and the walls was dirty, but the furniture were amazingly beautiful. The view from the tower was nice as well.
In the old city all the bars had their tables outside on the sidewalk and we had two meals there with some cheap beers.

Hungary

We traveled for 12 hours, we had to wake up at least 4 times to show our passport and tickets and listen , "brasil futebol".

We got in the hostel and went to walk around the old pest, public market where the beer (500 ml) were cheaper than the water. of course we had our lunch there and drank few beers, after that we went in one church which was constructed under the buda hill, in a cave.

On the day after we went in the royal castle in buda where had few Hungarian things in the museum. We went in the Mathias Church, were was closed for a wedding as well as fisherman bastion where had the best view of Danubio's River I've ever seen.

We had very good luck because that weekend was having one festival on the city where we went two afternoons to appreciate some beers and the European music.

On the last day we went on the famous bath of Budapest, one old castle ( at least look like one ) builded to be a house for bath. Pretty nice but the glamor stayed outside of the building, because inside was looking more one plate of soup , lots of old lady bathing in many swimming pools with different water. we have been in 4 different kinds of sauna, 3 dried and 1 humid.

on the next day after walked to the old market again we took our way to Bratislava ....

Poland

Hello guys.

After few days without nothing in the blog, here we go.

I've been in few countries until now. We arrived in Krakow (Poland) last week with 27 degrees only 20 more than Ireland, was quite difficult with that warm weather. In the first day we went in the Salt Mines, one amazing old mine, near 700 years working, near Krakow were everything were made by salt, that include 37 churches, lots of galleries around 300 km, restaurants, toilettes, dinner hall and the second most amazing thing is all under the floor, the deepest around 280 meters.

On the day after we been in Auschwitz, the biggest "cemetery" in the world where around 1.500.000 jews and gypsies were murdered. It's really depressing place to walk around , and the tour last 3,5 hours. I'm glad that I had been there, because I'm not going back there for sure.

The last day we walked around the old city, at night we got the train to Budapest but this is another story, when i had more time I'll talk about the rest of the trip.

Ok this is enough to show you that I'm having a good time and I'm still alive.

See you .......