Bratislava Danubiana

November 2, 2010

As you can see by the photo above, we spent a couple of hours today at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum.  It is built on the edge of a penisula jutting out into the waters of the Danube River.  The open-air scuptures were interesting.......inside was an exibition of the works of Jozef Jankovic.  I do not pretend to understand modern art, but the setting was wonderful and we enjoyed our time there.  We did have an 'incident'  as we traveled to the museum.  Once again we were crossing the Slovakia/Hungary border and were pulled over by the police.  This time we were chastised for buying the required Slovakian travel
stickers by the week, instead of one for the whole month, thereby paying too much!  Then he let us go.
We started out the morning in Old Town purchasing some crystal that I have wanted and I am proud to say that we resisted having hot chocolate at the Chocolate Cafe next door to the shop.  We have been regulars there and have just about tried everything on the menu.  We will go again this weekend, for while we were in the old town square we saw them putting up the giant Christmas tree and so we will go back to see it lit up.
We had a 3 hour lunch with 2 professors from the USA who live in our building, Bill Bagatelas and Dave Reichart.  Stan had a great time discussing with them a variety of subjects.