What with the opera starting at 7:00 p.m., we decided to eat at unfashionable times. Yesterday there was an attractive two-course special in the Sheraton Restaurant but it had sold out by the time we arrived.
We ventured across the square to try Al Faro, and enjoyed an early dinner that was tasty and reasonably priced.
We decided on a late lunch rather than an early dinner today, after hiking around Devin Castle. This time the Sheraton Restaurant special of the day was still available: minnestrone soup and grilled salmon on risotto.
It was excellent and a bargain at 8.50 Euros each, including a generous bread basket with four varieties of tapenade, and a bottle of still water.
It's almost time to get dressed for the opera. Tonight it's "Cav" and "Pag", the deathly operas of passion, jealousy, and murder that are often performed as a twin bill.
We took a quick photo of the theatre from our balcony last night just before walking over there. What a venue it is.
We're almost melancholy to realize that this is our final opera in Bratislava on this trip. We'd love to return here. Judging by the folks sitting behind us last night who spoke Viennese-dialect German (and shouting "Bravo" throughout the curtain calls), we're not the only ones to have discovered this bargain.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
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