It is what it sounds like – a Boat plus Hotel. As we pulled into Bratislava, we passed this. It looked a bit too tired to be an active boat. I was wondering if it was a hotel. In fact, we could see people having breakfast on the top floor. Once we got to the land, we walked past it – and sure enough… it is a hotel. “Botel Gracia” said the board.

We saw a lot of those small houses by the river as we sped to Bratislava. They all seem to have some kind of fishing apparatus nearby. Wonder if these are vacation getaways… Given that they seem to be also on stilts, they might be the famous Kritzendorf stilt houses. Need to do some research.

I have seen it from the air before – not from the ground level.

Slovakia will be the 74th country for me. We are taking the boat down the Danube to go from Vienna to Bratislava.