Blogs from Slovakia, Europe - page 53

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Geo: 48.1484, 17.1073The hostel owners were nowhere to be found this morning - I wanted to get my key deposit back. Got it after buzzing the front door and also calling the hostel. I gave Holly my email address in case - like I said, it was a little strange with her at times but I figure what the heck. But I doubt I will ever hear from her. Off to the train station - I tried to burn forints at the pastry shop. What an attitude on the lady! She was pissed off at me because she got me the wrong pastry. Then it got worse as I couldn't communicate that I wanted one sausage roll and one bacon pastry. Sorry lady but it's not my fault that the sausage roll has a higher IQ ... read more

Well, its been a while!! For those of you who were wondering if i had fell off the edge of the world, the answer is obviously no. However, i nearly fell off the edge of a motorway at 70mph (big style blow out, the type that leaves your tyre in pieces on the motorway). I have been getting around since leaving Germany. First i went to Babylon (small town in CZ republic). Not much there, except forests, thunderstorms and the occasional night club (found out that is what they call brothels, didnt go in). Spent a couple of nights and got some good off roading in. From there moved further into Bohemia (look it up if you dont know where it is. Found a camp site, by accident at Hnacov (remember the name because i went ... read more

This is the one stop on my trip that most people say, “Huh? Bratislava? Where’s that?” Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and a quick hour and a half train ride from Vienna (actually, as I discovered during my travel research, a number of Vienna bound flights land in Bratislava for some reason). Anyway, although not as famous as its former other half (Czech Republic), Slovakia is starting to make a name for itself and, surprisingly, Bratislava has done an excellent job with its town centre and is quite beautiful. However, before entering the town centre, I visited the not-so-beautiful dorm that was to be my home for the night. First, the tram ride out there was not so pretty. My guess is the beautification of Bratislava did not expand much past the town centre, as ... read more

Hiya I'm in a town called Roznava in the Slovak Karst. I went for a walk today near a place called Silica to see a cave. Felt v. brave walking by myself through the forest. The forest was at first appearance alot like English woodland - broadleaf, lots of beech but just there's an awful lot more of it. Huge tracts of land - glacial valleys, steep hillsides as far as the eye can see is all carpeted with this ancient forest. It occurred to me after a while that it wasn't at all like England because of the sheer size of it. It's probably how England was. I started imagining that a boar might suddenly appear from the undergrowth and wondering what I would do if that or a bear showed up. That thought was ... read more