Slovakia Travel Blogs

North Along the Danube.
Apr 23, 2004 (10 photos)

... of the river. Swans dabbled on t the red river surface only metres in front of me. The bridge over the Danube and into Slovakia was only a few hundred metres away, and I was at the border shortly after breakfast. I even got a stamp in my passport!! ...

many reasons to give thanks....
Nov 23, 2007 (62 photos)

... a little more and drink coffee and eat dumplings and cabbage and sausages and other Czech specialties.  We plan our trip to Slovakia...apparently Presov is about 10 hours by rail so we decide to do a sleeper train.  I'm a little nervous...I've ...

Modra
Aug 7, 2008 (10 photos)

... Esperantists wanders past on the way to the station! She was on the same train going to the same Esperanto event in Slovakia. What a coincidence! Anyhow, I sent Péter an sms and before long he was there too. I'd got the time of the train wrong so we ...

Bratislava
Apr 26, 2004 (2 photos)

Thanks to the map that Erasmus, the German cyclist gave me, I found the Downtown Backpackers Hostel no problem. The receptionist was very friendly and sympathetic to a half drowned cyclist. I was in an 8 bed dorm and shortly after I checked in a group ...

Bratislava
Aug 17, 2008 (9 photos)

Finally time to move on. I shook hands with my friendly front-desk bloke whom I woke up so many times so early in the morning. Well, he was pretty hard to wake so I used to just sleep on the bench outside till he checked to see whether I was there. ...

Trnava
Aug 16, 2008 (8 photos)

There was almost no-one around today as some people left today and most of the others went on an excursion to Vienna. So I took the opportunity to finally make it to Trnava. The bus was pretty pleasant of course but the towns before Trnava didn't ...

SEE NOT THE SKY
Jun 5, 2007 (8 photos)

... and many families regard those times as dark.) For nearly a week, we stayed at Jana's parents' holiday apartment and saw Slovakia's nature. One day, we were hiking the dry-yellow ridges of the Low Tatra Mountains.  Big, heavy rocks dropped down ...

Modra-Harmonia, Tuesday
Aug 12, 2008 (3 photos)

Well, class goes on as usual. During the break I got a snap of a couple of the beginner students. Both Slovak, so locals. Though unlikely local to Modra. Hope they keep up their Esperanto. In the afternoon there was an excursion, which I ...

Modra-Harmonia, Wednesday
Aug 13, 2008 (4 photos)

Well, my new hotel/pension up here in Harmonia is great. I'm about 300 meters from the congress centre, out in the countryside... great bloke at the front desk who even stopped and gave me a lift into town yesterday when he saw me on the road. Trouble ...

Slav
Aug 22, 2007 (4 photos)

... , but not as much as I had hoped.  About 3 and a half hours into the journey we crossed the border from Hungary into Slovakia, and I realised that I'd crossed borders in 4 ways now: air, sea, rail and road, yay!!  The border control guys weren't ...

Modra Harmonia, Saturday
Aug 9, 2008 (3 photos)

The view towards the congress-centre from the road towards Modra. Lots of nice greenery... lots of grapevines, nice villas dotted around the hills. First day of this lernu.net event. I've already managed to drag someone away from the convention ...

a German turtle
Aug 2, 2008

POLSKI: Dzis byl dzien jezdzenia samochodami osobowymi, bo jest weekend i TIRowcy nie pracuja. Zaczelismy od dwojki Niemcow, potem byla m.in. mloda Wegierka mowiaca perfekcyjnie po slowacku, dzieki czemu moglismy prawie swobodnie rozmawiac. Nadrobila ...

Not Like the Movies
Aug 6, 2006 (21 photos)

... a good chunk of the day watching the beach volleyball tournament in town. No, don't go running to check your maps -- Slovakia is about as landlocked as a country can be. Yet, nonetheless Bratislava was hosting its own beach volleyball tournament, complete ...

Last day in Bratislava
Aug 23, 2007 (7 photos)

After having a good read of my Lonely Planet's one paragraph that it gives to Bratislava's 'sights' and the tourist guide I'd picked up the day before I had about 4 places I wanted to visit today.  To be honest, outside of the old town there isn ...

Kosice
Aug 7, 2008

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Travel tips for tight-arse backpackers
Dec 2, 2007

So, having had some time to pause and reflect on a crazy year of backpacking, we have assembled some words of wisdom for other budget backpackers.  Most of these tips are ways to save money while travelling and also how to enjoy the journeying.  ...

Harmonia, Thursday
Aug 14, 2008 (3 photos)

I ended up missing class completely. Not surprising seeing I only got to bed at 6:30 and class was at 9:00. I was also going to catch a bus to Trnava... but I managed to miss that too by about 3 minutes... Not a good start to the day. It turns ...

Class Begins
Aug 10, 2008 (6 photos)

I had to change hotels yesterday. My new one's still in Modra and more expensive than the other one but pretty nice. And well, still incredibly cheap. My new hotel which is called a pension. I'm sure there's some difference besides the fact that ...

Harmonia, Friday
Aug 15, 2008 (3 photos)

Finally the day that all Australian Esperantists wait for... the sport day. Table-tennis, tennis and badminton. Unfortunately the table tennis bats were far from ideal and the lighting was a bit dodgy too. They really only had one playable tennis ...

Where They Have A Town Called 'Horny Smokovec'..
Jun 11, 2006 (14 photos)

Another day another country. Slovakia this time. When we were planning this trip we had to decide between Czech Republic or Slovakia. It was a hard decision for us to make as Prague is arguably the prettiest city on earth and Slovakia is renowned for ...

Modra, Friday
Aug 8, 2008 (6 photos)

Another day to kill before the start of the Esperanto school. My hotel room seems to have no tv... so I had to find somewhere to watch the Olympics opening. It's usually the same old stuff at these openings... lots of balloons, crackers, boring ...

Bratislava
Aug 1, 2008

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High Tatras
Aug 4, 2008

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Levoca
Aug 5, 2008

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A river runs through Slovakia
Jun 20, 2007 (3 photos)

(C) Slovakia is a very strange place.  I can't figure out what is going on.  It seems to be very poor, but it is so beautiful and is full of natural resources.  We stopped along the river just to get out and go for a walk.  I bet there ...

SNOWY HIKE, SLOVAKIA
May 5, 2006 (6 photos)

... 's three hill systems: the Fatra, the Tatra, and ... well, another one. on that note: peace out, Slovakia! - Modern Oddyseus P.S. - I'm smelly too sometimes. Thanks to Milan Mizera; Milan; Karel Smeykal; Slavo; Shtefan; Zdenek Jakubec; ...

An open letter to the world
Sep 11, 2007

An open letter to the countries of the world Dear Countries of the World - Over the last year or so we have travelled to and through a good number of you. We have noticed how different you ...

Adrians Birthday in Bratislava
Nov 24, 2005 (4 photos)

A long trek to our hotel in Bratislava with a few missed directions in the train station to find Michelle and Carol waiting for us. I took them aside and mentioned that I needed to get some cake as it was Adrians birthday the next day.. and where did ...

Some photos
Dec 1, 2007 (15 photos)

Here are some photos from our last three months in Slovakia.   In September we went to visit a picturesque little village called Cecmany, which is famous for these painted houses. This is the view ...

Bratislava, Slovakia
Aug 14, 2005 (3 photos)

... the 1950's to 1989 Soviet Domination gave it row upon row of grey, faceless, high rise accommodation blocks and factory chimneys. Slovakia was formed in 1993 by the break up of Czechoslavakia. A funny highlight of our day was finding an apricot tree near ...