
Over the years, Bratislava’s Hotel Devín had welcomed the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Karel Gott, the Dalai Lama and even ‘Slash’ from the rock group Guns N’ Roses (in 1995). I stayed there myself on the night of November 9-10, 1989, as a guest of the Czechoslovak StB, who were planning to give me a night I’d never forget. Photo credit: www.hoteldevin.sk