After a very busy few days ticking off three new countries, exploring three new cities and travelling on three international trains it was time to break the run of threes and catch the first of two flights that would get me back to Heathrow to end my trip. Despite booking my flights with Lufthansa, I was actually flying with a different member of the Lufthansa Group, Swiss International Air Lines, commonly known simply as Swiss.
Having thoroughly enjoyed my time in Prague, along with Budapest and Bratislava, it was time for my trip to come to an end and so I headed back to the airport to start the journey home. With some time to spare before check-in opened I decided to make use of Prague airport's visitor’s terrace and see what it had to offer.
Having only briefly passed through the city on my way to Budapest, I arrived back into Prague’s Hlavna station onboard the Hungaria from Bratislava, with a couple of nights stay planned in the city to explore. Known as the ‘Golden City’ or the ‘City of a Hundred Spires’, the historic centre of Prague has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1992.
After a packed stay in Bratislava, it was time to head back to Hlavna station to start the final leg of my trip. Heading to Prague for the final couple of nights of the trip, this leg was starting with a four-and-a-half-hour journey across Slovakia and Czechia onboard the Hungaria.
Located on the border between Bratislava’s new and old towns, Hlavna station is the city’s (and possibly Slovakia’s) most important railway station with direct connections to Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland and the rest of Slovakia. I arrived into the station just after 1800 onboard the EC272 from Budapest.
After less than 36 hours in the Hungarian capital and a day of aviation geekery that didn’t quite go to plan, I was back at Nyugati station ready to take the second international train of the trip, the Metropolitan from Budapest to Bratislava in 2nd class.
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