Nashville Pussy in Bratislava

Don't miss this band when they are in your city, Nashville Pussy!




















Blaine Cartwright gets the crowd riled up in Bratislava.




Friday night the great southern rock band Nashville Pussy played a show in Bratislava, our current home city. The show was right in our neighborhood at the Randal Club. It was evident talking to the support crew member from Philidelphia that he was happy to be talking to some native english speakers. Alexandra and I had a great time supporting the group from Atlanta, Georgia. Alexandra and the bass player, Karen Cuda, talked after the show. Looking forward to the return of the group when they come through Bratisalva again next year.





Karen Cuda and Blaine Cartwright

Blaine Cartwright and Ruyter Suys









We met a Slovak local who was full of great information about places to see while we are living in Slovakia for the next 16 monthes. She had recently been on a trip to the US, travelling around Florida, surfing and enjoying the beaches. It was funny to see someone so tan in Slovakia during the winter time. Some of the places she told us about were: Chopok jasna, Janosikove diery, and Terchova.

Miss Universe Slovakia

Miss Universe Slovakia pageant will be in Slovakia, 5 March 2011. The winner will represent Slovakia in the Miss Universe 2011 pageant in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

http://pageantisland.com/miss-universe-slovakia-2011-contestants-bikinis

We missed the show on 15 February, but something about the last name of these two tells me we really missed out on something special.

Continuing with the idea from the last post, I have continued collecting images of great looking locals and a couple of cars.

Audi, murdered and in need of a wash in Stare Mesto.

This mens store I just realized was called, Shocker. I see it everytime when at the shopping center, Polus.

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Great shopping at this store?

Snowboard sale, 50% off!

Skinny jeans and tall boots.

I had some pictures taken here for my resident permit. My pictures turned out well.

Teal blue sweater, red leather shirt with fur collar and fur coat.

Stripes and argyle

Formal wear

If you look closely at the pictures of display windows, you can see my reflection.

Smart Car, parked across from Slovenska Technicka Universita v Bratislave.

http://www.stuba.sk/

Spring Fashion

Greetings from Bratislava, Slovakia. 2011 begins the year of the rabbit or cat. I have seen some really great looking people while in Bratislava and the surrounding countries we have traveled to. So many in fact that I could probably start a new blog just devoted to fashionable looking people, maybe that will come later.

From the last entry you could tell that it started to warm up around here which got everyone excited about spring, it didn't stay warm. The weather turned back to cold and windy days with the occasional snow or freezing rain flurry. Wednesday was a new experience for Alexandra with frozen rain in the morning. Great for walking in.

Back to the great clothes that people wear. There are some pictures from Austria to start with and the rest are from Slovakia. I've also put some in of me to make it fair.

We were out with a group of friends enjoying some music when we saw a guy with an interesting mustache, look over to the right.

Lucky Pierre. Holding what I thought was a microphone, but there was no singing.

This guy talked at us outside the club before going in and passing out.

As luck would have it right next to where our group was sitting.

Lots of stripes. This place was below street level.

Walking in city center.

Going back to work, not on a Friday.

Time for the early bird special.

Urban camo for shopping.

More to come in the next post. Peace. This was Christmas morning, 2010 in California.

No models were harmed in the making of this blog.

Spring Fever

Warm temperatures in Bratislava the past weekend had us thinking about spring. While the weather was so nice we took advantage of it and did some driving in the country.















But first we just walked around our neighbohood on Saturday. This was on the back wall of a good lunch spot, Divny Janko = Crazy Johny.











Nothing like some pizza or doughnuts, we didn't go in so I'm not sure if they had both.
















This was Sunday, we stopped because Alexandra saw Montana on the awning.











Our destination, Bojnice Castle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojnice













The weather was so nice even the police were out enjoying it.

Last tour of the day was at 2 o'clock, so we had some time to eat lunch and walk around the town which was below the castle.

Suberbowl Sunday

Inside the inner castle courtyard.

Monday afternoon, back in Bratislava, the weather was even better.

Southside of the River Danube, looking at Stare Mesto, Bratislava. Bratislava Castle on the far left.

Looking east down the River Danube at Stary Most.

Back on the north side of the river, there were two barges full of cars. Cars were parked 5 x 15 on both decks. In the backround you can see Apollo Bridge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Bridge

London

The last leg of our trip was during 14-16 January 2011. This was the third capital city we had been to for the new year including Dublin and Paris. Our flight left Ireland from the airport in Shannon which is about 20 minutes outside of Limerick. We flew to London Heathrow airport and took the Tube into the city. Friday night was spent walking around the Edgware Road area and having dinner.

Saturday afternoon walking around the city, on the way to Hyde Park.

Big Red

Big horse head, near Marble Arch, Oxford St, Westminster, London.

Buckingham Palace

Old technology is still in use in London and a popular photo attraction.

Big Ben

London Eye on the Thames River

Going down the escalator at Piccadilly Circus tube stop.

One of the main reasons for stopping in London on the way back from Ireland was the opportunity to attend an English Premier League Football match. It worked out that one of the top clubs, Arsenal, was playing at West Ham United and we were able to get seats. I'm now also a member of the West Ham United FC support group. This means I get at least one email per week from the club manager explaining what happened in the last weeks match and how changes and improvements are coming next week. There are also emails for tickets to the FA Cup and merchandise sales. The most recent email today had a program to buy a Kid for a Quid, take a look at the text. http://www.whufcboxoffice.com/

"The FA Cup is important because it's the FA Cup. Of course our target is the league, and the most important thing is that. We'll do everything we can to succeed in the league. I am pleased the club has made our next league game against Birmingham Kids for a Quid. It is good to get the young supporters to the games. But it is also good to be involved in this cup."

Going to the match should have been a straight forward ride on the tube, change trains and another tube ride to the stop at Upton Park. That didn't happen, maintenance and a labor disagreement had closed some stations which meant we got to ride a double decker red bus to the Upton Park stop after riding on three different tube lines.

Game time at Boleyn Grounds home of West Ham United. We had to walk down Green Street to the pitch and were surrounded by enthusiastic fans hoping for a win over Arsenal, that didn't happen but it was a great experience. Final score 3-0, Arsenal. There was a movie made about some of the most enthusiastic fans of West Ham United called Green Street, which starred the guy who was a hobbit in the movie shot in New Zealand. I'm planning to watch it sometime soon.

After the match we walked back to the Upton park bus stop to wait on the bus. Since we had plenty of time we crossed the street and went to the Duke of Edinburgh pub, 299 Green St, London. It was full of West Ham supporters enjoyng a pint after the match.