Advertisement
« previous next »
Sylvia's Cousins  
   

Sylvia's Cousins

This is my Slovak entourage. The one on the right is a bouncer at a gypsy club and the one on the left guards the Slovak president...so dont try anything.
Sylvia and her cousins' graduation party

July 1st 2008
On Friday, we drove to Kosice to attend the graduation of Sylvia's cousin Ka. She has been studying in vet school for the last six years at a bilingual Slovak/English program. The graduation was held in the town theatre which has been very well restored. The graduation ceremony was rather short, but it might have been half as long if everything was not repeated in English. It is quite common f ... read more
Europe » Slovakia

Slovak Flag In 1918 the Slovaks joined the closely related Czechs to form Czechoslovakia. Following the chaos of World War II, Czechoslovakia became a Communist nation within Soviet-ruled Eastern Europe. Soviet influence collapsed in 1989 and Czechoslovakia once... ... read more
Advertisement
Tot: 0.023s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 4; qc: 6; dbt: 0.0087s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1mb