I walked around all the tourist places and called it a day.
I remember staring at the city across the river from the top of the palace. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was once mighty, but over the last couple of centuries, it has been consistently on the wrong side of wars. More recently, they had to get rid of the communists, which meant they were smart people.
I enjoyed the bus ride from Bratislava to Budapest. The highway goes through some countryside, and the weather was perfect.