Hoilday to Prague, Bratislava and Budapest
23/5/04
Today it was raining with strong winds.
The power was off all over town when we got up.
We had to leave the bathroom door open or shower in the dark. As we went for breakfast the power came back on.
After breakfast we went in to the town. It was windy and cold.
We went to the Primate Palace. The Primate’s palace was the winter home of the Archbishop of Esztergom. The current building was completed in 1781. In 1903 it was brought by Bratislava city council for a town meeting hall, it’s use today. There is a very pretty chapel called the chapel of St Ladislav. There is this room called the Mirror room where Napoleon sighed a treaty and the council now meets. It looks like a posh meeting room. There are five room with painting and Tapestries, plus some furniture from the 1600 - 1900. The Green, the Brown, the Blue, the Red and the Golden Drawing rooms. The wallpaper is fabric and the Marble is painted on to the walls. The rooms are really nice. The paintings are good and the tapestries are seventieth century and tell a Greek myth. They are very good too.
We bought cake and when back to the hotel to watch the Grand Pix. Truillie won, M Schuemaker crashed, Montay’s fault.
Afterward Mum and I walked across the SNP (Novy)Bridge to the other side of the Danube and Sad Janka Krala Park. The park is nice lot’s of places to sit and old trees. We sheltered from the rain under the trees and saw a red squirrel. We walked back across Stary Mast. We walked back to the hotel and met Patrick by the door and went for ice cream.
Today it was raining with strong winds.
The power was off all over town when we got up.
We had to leave the bathroom door open or shower in the dark. As we went for breakfast the power came back on.
After breakfast we went in to the town. It was windy and cold.
We went to the Primate Palace. The Primate’s palace was the winter home of the Archbishop of Esztergom. The current building was completed in 1781. In 1903 it was brought by Bratislava city council for a town meeting hall, it’s use today. There is a very pretty chapel called the chapel of St Ladislav. There is this room called the Mirror room where Napoleon sighed a treaty and the council now meets. It looks like a posh meeting room. There are five room with painting and Tapestries, plus some furniture from the 1600 - 1900. The Green, the Brown, the Blue, the Red and the Golden Drawing rooms. The wallpaper is fabric and the Marble is painted on to the walls. The rooms are really nice. The paintings are good and the tapestries are seventieth century and tell a Greek myth. They are very good too.
We bought cake and when back to the hotel to watch the Grand Pix. Truillie won, M Schuemaker crashed, Montay’s fault.
Afterward Mum and I walked across the SNP (Novy)Bridge to the other side of the Danube and Sad Janka Krala Park. The park is nice lot’s of places to sit and old trees. We sheltered from the rain under the trees and saw a red squirrel. We walked back across Stary Mast. We walked back to the hotel and met Patrick by the door and went for ice cream.