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.