A country of castles, food and wine
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Anthony Swanston
Mon 4 Sep 2017 03:47
I jump onto
a fast catamaran and head off to Bratislava my eighth country without Wild Fox,
my 53rd since leaving Bangor.
We run downstream at 32 knots, average, but six knots of that is
favourable current so it is a bit slower coming back. Slovakia’s history is complicated but, as a
nation, they are doing well. They have
more castles, per capita, than any other country.
The people
are great, the food wonderful, the buildings spectacular.
The roast goose is especially good with the wine made almost next door. I do
several tours including an evening pub crawl where we learn a lot of
interesting history. On another we see
the Castle where King Richard was a prisoner for three years.
On a clear day you can still hear him shouting “John, pay the ransom!”
The Danube
is muddy brown. So why did Johann Strauss
call it the Blue Danube? Well apparently when they won a huge battle against
Napoleon they threw the dead French into the river and they all wore blue
uniforms. There were so many bodies that
the river turned blue. Believe this if
you want to…
