…back in Bratislava, it is interesting to see all of the buildings that remain in disrepair. Many are incredibly beautiful with nice architectural details. They simply stand ready, waiting for someone to spend the money to fix them up.














Scored a nice night shot of the main square last night. I have probably taken too many pictures of the square, but it is a nice place and I enjoy spending time there.





Shot of one of the streetcar/pedestrian streets that weave through the city.





Finally, a shot from Devin Castle just outside the city. We spent today roaming around the grounds and lucked (I guess) into a huge medieval festival!

By the way, sorry for the quality of some of the images. The sky was so gray this first day, that the pictures bleed into the page.



Most of our team arrived on Saturday, August 23 and had the opportunity to explore the old city. The building in the background is the beautiful Old City Hall.




The rain didn’t necessarily ruin the site seeing, but it did seem to put a damper on the musical festival that was going in Hlavné námestie (Slovak for the Main Square).




St. Martin’s Cathedral is the largest chapel in Bratislava and was formerly used as the coronation church of the Kingdom of Hungary.




A nice view of the skinny pedestrian streets that make up the Old City district of Bratislava.

The town has public art spread throughout the city including this sewer worker that was quite popular.




Finally, here are a number of students on the team being dazzled by the projected coke sign on the Old City’s stone street.

I will make sure to post a new image(s) each day until I get back (I now have a much faster internet connection than I have been experiencing, which was making it difficult to upload the photos). Thank you for continuing to check in!

I am headed to Bratislava, Slovakia to work on a planning and design project with a team of students and professors from MIT. We will be spending the next seven days doing site visits and due diligence before returning to Boston where we will spend the next semester designing a health spa resort.

Hopefully, I will have the opportunity to post pictures while I am there, but the post may be a little hit and miss for the next week. Either way I will let you know how it goes and keep you updated as we progress throughout the semester.