Spis Castle is a very big very old ruin of a castle and very famous. It is on quite a little hill but the site is very well chosen as it’s visible in any direction and obviously good at guarding all around. On the road we went thru a very long tunnel— 5 kilometres of very high tech roading—as we came out there was the castle a few km away framed in the opening of the tunnel -guarding the high tech road as well and a great example of the high tech many centuries ago compared with high tech now. You [View Full Entry]

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Ian here again...seems i get the job of typing and jenny helps pick the pretty pictures!! currently in Budapest in Hungary but i believe we left you in Krakow in southern poland. Krakow was Kracking....met our first embarrasing brits..you know the type, loud obnoxious and on the pi%%....i say met..they were a few tables away but couldnt really miss them..obviously didnt associate with them!! From our rest day in Krakow we started our journey south heading for the high tatra mountains that lie on the border of Slovakia and Poland....Started to get a little lumpy whcih i think actually did us [View Full Entry]

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Day one - Popradske Pleso 22/08/07 Today we made the journey from Poprad (the main transport hub of the high Tatras) to Propadske Pleso, a mountain lake that lies at an elevation of about 1500m in the High Tatra Mountains in Northern Slovakia. We first had to catch the train from Proprad up to Stary Smokovec where we bought a hiking map and small book detailing some of the different hikes in the Tatras - an indispensable purchase we thought, and so far has given us lots of inspiration for planning our activities over the next few days. After filling up [View Full Entry]

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Ok guys finally got good internet access (yay for egypt!) so here are the photos i missed out from Eastern Europe. So that is for Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia & Czech Republic and then I can finally post the other blogs from Greece and Italy too so happy reading (& photo viewing too) Cheers - Loe [View Full Entry]

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Hello, Well on our way to Krakow we decided to go to Vysoke Tatry, the mountainous area in northern Slovakia. We booked a bungalow at Eurocamp, something we weren,t overly happy with, our preconceptions of Eurocamp weren,t very positive, but it was the cheapest deal in the area by a long shot. On arrival we were met with sights of men wearing the shortest shorts you can imagine playing noisy games of football and groups of screeching school kids. Hmmm, not the serene environment we had envisaged for our stay in the mountains. Proceeding to the reception area we were [View Full Entry]

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Totally didn't plan to trek for so long and so high! haaaa.... How nice to meet people on the way..haa...coz this trekking was SO GOOD...the view was superb!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, woke up around 7 and by the time I got ready....breakfast was already out in the garden! wah....so nice=) We kinda took our time and then got to the bus station and AH! missed the bus by like 2 mins!!!!! >__<" So we decided to hop on the bus to Levoca and hope there were more frequent buses going to Poprad...and BINGO! haaa....one in 15 mins! sweeeeeeeeeeet! Got to Poprad and had [View Full Entry]

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[url='/Videos/3274.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3274.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Snow Hiking The first day we did a short hike, 3 hours! up to a waterfall which was a bit disapointing but the hike was nice. The tourist info lady didnt warn us that we´d be hiking through snow and dara was not surprisingly a bit chilly in his shorts. The seccond day we decided to do a long hike (5 hours up and 3 down). We saw 3 pretty waterfalls. Most of the hike was again through snow, the last 2 hours was challanging, Snow was deep and a very steep uphill. When we got to the [View Full Entry]

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Much to our disgust we boarded our train to the Tatras straight after our train to Bratislava from Budapest, to find it was absolutely chocker block!! However we were very lucky to find a cargo carraige that we were allowed to sit in! So we had a very pleasant ride sprawled out with the big sliding doors open watching the beautiful Slovakian countryside roll past. When we finally arrived in Terchova we went to the nearest pension\hotel to ask where the one we were book at was. Apparently the place we booked at had never heard of us so for a [View Full Entry]

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High Tatras 22.10 - 23.10.2005 nice time look We had very nice time, warm and clear. See you guys Janoo [View Full Entry]

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Štrebské Pleso anchors the west end of the Tatras rail line while Tatranská Lomnica occupies the other. Both have cable cars take hikers to trails located at higher altitudes. While a nine hour march along a mountainside did not appeal to me, I made a half day of it and hiked about two hours. On the way, I scooped up Midori, from Niigata, Japan, and convinced her to tag along. She is a student studying Slovak. Odd, isn’t it? A Japanese girl studying Slovak? The ride from Tatranská Lomnica up to Skalnaté Pleso presents graceful views of the forested slopes below, [View Full Entry]

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