The Travelling Buncebury's

  the castle at Lake Bled during the day and floodlit at night, both from our hotel room The answer to the question I posed in blog 3 about our Bratislava hotel is that to our astonishment it was built in 1931.  My thanks to those of you who sent an answer.    Only one was even close and as my brother wouldn’t appreciate the publicity I won’t say who it was.   Ljubljana from the castle, ascent by funicular   you've left the converter plug behind ! I know I’ve said a lot about trains but I can find no sensible explanation for the fact that a single ticket from Bratislava to Vienna is more expensive than a return.   This wasn’t a misread on our part, it was pointed out to us by the helpful woman in the Bratislava ticket office.   Surely there must be a black market or an App which for a small consideration will match up people who want to go to Bratislava with orphan return tickets.   Once we’d left Vienna our journey to Lbubljana didn’t run through Slovenia but through s