Good deals online in Slovakia

Good deals online

Everybody is looking for good deals but many of us do not want to spend a lot of time going from shop to shop looking for the perfect thing. Or waiting for the opening hours in order to buy the best present.

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Moving to Bratislava -free time

Moving to Bratislava – Old town

You just moved to Bratislava and you are wondering how you can spend your time. Or you just have friends and family coming over and you need to make a plan. There is a classic plan and that includes the “old town”.

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I start working in Bratislava

I start working in Bratislava- Looking for a flat

Working in Bratislava most probably means that you need a place to sleep. The post Looking for accommodation in Bratislava was already touching the subject but I realized that not everybody has a partner who speaks the language like I did. It might help to start differently.

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Night transport in Bratislava

Night transport: Public

Night and no tram ?  As I mentioned in a previous post Bratislava has a cheap public transport and recently updated with new vehicles. That is very nice but if you happen to go out in the evening you might have difficulties in getting back using the tram/bus.

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Do you speak Slovak?

Learning Slovak?

I didn’t speak Slovak and to be honest my skills are still rudimentary. The advantage that I had was that I was speaking some Czech. They are not the same language although they have many words in common. Czech Republic and Slovakia use to be one country and they have many similarities but each has their own identity.                  Continue reading “Do you speak Slovak?”

Public transport in Bratislava

Using public transport?

We got the jobs and we got the flat. The next step was figuring out how to get from one to the other on a daily basis. We had a car but we couldn’t count on both of us using it. I always preferred the public transport because I am not an experienced driver. Fortunately Bratislava has a good system of public transportation and it is fairly cheap.

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Have a bite in Bratislava, lunch time

Have a bite in Bratislava (lunch in or out?)

A few days after our arrival to Bratislava, having started our new jobs, we were wondering if we needed to cook our lunch or we could eat some place out in Bratislava.

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Looking for accommodation in Bratislava

We needed it accommodation!

When we decided to move to Bratislava we already knew that we would have jobs so that part was solved. But we had other things that we had to take care. One in particular was topping the list : accommodation.

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