Ferry Random Acts Of Kindness

Day: 206

Towns / Cities Visited: 134

Countries Visited: 25

Steps Taken Today: 25,212

Steps Taken Around the World: 3,394,173

Our day began early, both because we had places to go and things to see, and also because we were sleeping on a far from comfortable mattress. Awake, albeit somewhat reluctantly, be scoffed down some breakfast, checked out, left our bags in the charge of the hostel staff. Scurrying off to the bus stop we had scoped out the day before, we arrived just in time to hop onto our required vehicle. Twenty minutes or so later and we were jumping off in the small town of Devin, which sits north-west of the capital, just beside the border to Austria.

Now, we may not have known exactly how to get to our desired destination, Devin Castle, but given that its stony silhouette looms high over the town, it wasn’t long before we weaved our way to the base of its clifftop perch. Missing the path up to the gate, we managed to find ourselves stumbling across a monument to those killed during the Soviet occupation of Slovakia, and its time behind the infamous Iron Curtain. Taking a moment to regard the memory of those lost, we retraced our steps and finally, after swimming through a sea of visitors clearly on a tour, located the entrance and purchased our tickets.