Blogs from Slovakia, Europe - page 15

Hello my fellow travellers! Today has been a very interesting day with many good meetings. This morning Jay was the first to leave since he had an early train to Vienna, my own one was about an hour later. So, I said goodbye to Jay with a promise to try and meet again in Berlin in July and a bit later I said goodbye to Jakub and Mark, both of whom I will meet again on Wednesday. Neither Katy nor Christine was up yet. At the train station my train was 20 minutes delayed but it was okay as it gave me a chance to get a little something to eat. The train ride though was really fun as I got to share a cabin with two lovely ladies from Japan. They were talking a lot ... read more

ZHODNOTENIE Rumunsko ma prekvapilo akurat sofermi co pustali ludi cez prechod este ked ani neboli na nom, fakt uplne nieco nenormalne, niekedy to az prehanali. Vylet hodnotim velmi pozitivne, ziadne zle skusenosti, ludia v pohode, pocasie vyslo, jedlo dobre, preprava bez problemov, ubytka na slusnej urovni. V buducnosti by som sem ale siel uz len do hor, mesta prakticky totozne s nasimi, mimo historicke centra to vyzeralo ako u nas pred 15.rokmi. Na dedinach ziju este starym sposobom zivota, kone,koce, cigani... Co mi ale nejde do hlavy boli kurzy v banke, jeden den je kurz 4,35, druhy 4,43, totozna banka, platba kartou. Este pri "bezplatnom" vybere fio banky chapem,ze dali horsi kurz aby neako dobehli poplatok ale pri bezhotovostnych platbach tomu ozaj nerozumiem. Targu Mures - boli sme prakticky len na predmesti, nic specialne sme nev ... read more

Although I never intended to stop here when I planned this trip, or when I changed my plans to avoid air travel 4 weeks ago, I'm glad I did. My first visit to Bratislava - 6 years ago - was a whirlwind that left a general impression but little substance. I now have that substance, and for that I am grateful. Bratislava is not a huge town for sightseeing - most of what you'll want to see and remember is in the Old Town, which you can meander through and be done with in about an hour. I did that on Friday, my first afternoon in town. To get past all that, I wanted to use the bus and tram system, and while it's easy to use in theory, it didn't quite work out that way ... read more

ZHODNOTENIE V Rime sme sa pohybovali prakticky po top turistickych trasach, takze nebolo treba prakticky pouzivat ani mapu,stacilo ist s davom a clovek sa dostal na neake zaujimave miesto. Ono je to tu prakticky na kazdom kroku zaujimave, same kostoliky,zrucaniny... Najviac ma zaujal anjelsky hrad,taktiez nocne koloseum bolo famozne. Sklamali ma spanielske schody (fakt len schody nic viac) a samozrejme fontana trevi,ktora bola v rekonstrukcii. Pocasie nam vyslo, v letnych mesiacoch by som sa ale rimu isto vyhol. Velke plus su fontanky na pitnu vodu, ktore su prakticky vsade. Staci si len doniest malu flasu a clovek ma postarane o gratis doplnanie tekutin. Z platenych pamiatok by som zrejme navstivil len Vatikan a mozno forum romanum ale to fakt len mozno, ostatne su pre mna nezaujimave a dost drahe od 10€. Vsade som cital ,ze popri ... read more

In April 2008 while on a trip to Hungary I decided to travel to Slovakia by train with my Hungarian friend. I wanted to see another former Soviet bloc communist state in Eastern Europe besides Hungary and Poland. The following is an account of our visit to Kosice the second largest city in Slovakia. It was a cold morning when we set out for the railway station in Nyiregyhaza. The train was scheduled to leave at 7:30 but we arrived at the station well in time. An hour after leaving Nyiregyhaza the train pulled in at Miskolc where we had to change to another train for Kosice. However, we had to wait another two hours at the station for this train, so we spent some of the time to have breakfast at the station cafe. The ... read more