On a quiet Sunday morning

This is some sort of space tower bridge.

Our ship arrived at our next stop early in the morning.  It was a beautiful sunny day and we got up early to take in the sites of Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia.  

The city was quiet, being a Sunday morning and we started our tour with a short bus trip to an old castle that overlooked the city. We stopped outside the gates and we walked through a number of courtyards.  The castle was founded long ago around the 11th century, though the current version was built in the 17th century, but did not have cable tv during that time.  
We climbed to one of overviews of the city and the guide pointed out that while looking over the river, you could see the development during the communist era.  It was very industrial and very boxy looking.  After digging through the nooks and crannies of the castle, we took a walking tour of the town.

We saw several of the towns museums, including a interesting tour of the wine making history of the area.  Another stop was a tour of a collection of  Francis Cleyn tapestries.  The story was interesting on how they acquired them.  Apparently they were hidden in the walls for centuries and when the build was sold, the new owners, the government found them and now have them on display much to the chagrin of the previous owners who had no idea they were there.

We only had few hours to see everything, so Kathy and I left the tour and did some walking around by ourselves and headed back to the ship.  We had a short stay and had to leave by noon to head on over to Vienna.

The dinner that night was a celebration for MN Alumni group, where we sang a stirring rendition of the rouser.  As we headed up the river, we dined with our new alumni friends and got ready for a long day in Vienna.