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Oh one thing I meant to mention about the views from the castle, by and large they are quite nice, the Danube, the UFO tower, and Bratislava in all it's glory warts and all.
One of them warts, is the enormous concrete jungle of a housing estate just behind the UFO tower, you can't not see it, it's huge. I don't know much of the history of Slovakia other than they were communist until 1989 I think and then some years later became independent from Czechoslovakia and was then known as Slovak. Ok history lesson over - I think this concrete jungle was probably constructed 1990-95 it looks a kind of hideously modern construction type of thing, a city within a city if you like.
I don't actually have an opinion either way about this jungle, people have to live after all and what it was like during the communist era doesn't bear thinking about. Local Bratislavan people seem happy enough so makes me think the concrete jungle is ok deep inside - am tempted to wander into it ......
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