Slovakia - Tick Tock

The rain continued, and continued and still didn't stop. In fact it rained for hours and hours and we got soaking wet. To keep dry and take in some culture, we went to visit the clock museum in Vienna. The range of time pieces was astounding!

The museum is home to sun dials, pocket watches

, mantle clocks, long case clocks, japanese watches and even an incredible Philippe Patek carriage clock. The museum had an interesting range of novelty clocks from the 19th Century

and a beautifully displayed collection of pocket watches with a mirror at the back of the display unit so you could see both the front and back of the watches.
My only criticism is that the incredibly morose staff never smiled and followed me around as if I were planning Austria's biggest clock heist - I admit that wearing a soaking wet army suplus jacket may have made me look slightly suspicious
but the staff had clearly decided that I was decidedly dodgy and did not leave me in any rooms alone.

After leaving the museum, we had brunch in Fat Monk, a "budda bowl" restaurant, full of healthy food, to help counteract the paucity of nourishment the previous day. We then collected the cars and said "Auf Weidersehen" to Austria.

Ninety minutes later, we sailed into Slovakia; very, very tired. We found the lycee and was met upon our arrival by two night staff, who despite not speaking French or English (and I don't speak any Slovakian apart from "hello", which in all honesty doesn't get you too far in a conversation) very kindly showed us our alloted rooms and the cantine.

The cantine is
closed on a Sunday night but we found a good pizzeria in town which sold rather tasty pizzas (and gluten free).

We returned to the lycee and crashed out. I was sleeping like a baby by a quarter past ten.

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