The girls there were playing love games but I will lie if I say I don't miss living there. It was almost like living in the Balkans in some way, in others very different. The worst thing was how far it was from the sea. The best that it's safer than Western Europe and cleaner than the Balkans.

After the horrors of living in the Netherlands and UK it was like a land of respite. That said the cities and towns are usually commie and drab, not as pretty as the ones in the Czech Republic. It was definitely easier to make friends in Bratislava than in Sofia. Also teachers there seemed nicer than the bad teachers you usually find in Sofia.

If I knew this I would've insisted that my parents move us to Slovakia for school when I was a kid. I would've saved me lots of trouble.

I used to think Bratislava is an ugly city but this year I visited Varna properly and, well, aside from the sea, which is always amazing Varna is far uglier. It's just that Bratislava has few old parts, it's mostly Modernism.

The place and culture is slightly melancholic if I have to use just one word, the sounding of this song is basically how Slovakia feels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lrE02NQ2SI

What do you know or think about Slovakia?