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Travel Blogs from Kosice, Slovakia

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Easter in Slovakia, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Easter in Slovakia

A travel blog entry by jackdrury

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... before Easter, we did a 500km road trip to Eastern Slovakia with Ellen's cousin Martin and his wife Zdenka. The town of Kosice, Slovakia's second largest, sits about 70 km from the Ukraine border. We visited several ancient churches in small and not so ...

Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Kosice

A travel blog entry by meganandkevin

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... to stay in the centre of the old town so we quickly dumped our things and headed out to explore.  We were told that Kosice is a very typical Slovak town so we strolled around taking in all that we could.  We walked the strip and checked out some ...

Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Kosice

A travel blog entry by jag

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Kosice was simply a superb place to end our time in Slovakia. Kosice definitely had the edge on Bratislava in terms of things to see. The main square was twice as large and grand as Slovakias largest city. The gothic Cathedral of St Elizabeth, St Michaels ...

Photos sorted but camera screen is busticated, Michalovce, Slovakia travel blog

Photos sorted but camera screen is busticated

A travel blog entry by jimmymacfad

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... September  115 km  I awoke to the memory that I had a headache for a good reason, thanks to my Kosice cycle posse.  I eventually overloaded the chain-driven rolling apparatus and slowly, very slowly, left my motorway residence. I trundled ...

Mountain trails, Podelsok, Slovakia travel blog

Mountain trails

A travel blog entry by laine

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9/6 The drive today took us through Roznava, towards a national park called Slovensky Raj National park. We took a back road and drove over some very precarious roads with out much fuel left! I am sure it would have been lovely if I wasn't freaking ...

Through Slovakia, Kosice, Trensin, Bratislava, Slovakia travel blog

Through Slovakia

A travel blog entry by williebobs

What a pool! (see Issue 11 for ...

Slovakia weekend, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Slovakia weekend

A travel blog entry by jenl

This weekend Tina and I drove to Kosice, which is the second largest city in Slovakia. It's about the same size as Debrecen, which is about 250,000 people. The drive is about 2 hours or so through mostly Hungarian countryside and then a little bit up into ...

Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Kosice

A travel blog entry by herby

After a 10 hour overnight train journey from Prague to Kosice in Eastern Slovakia, we turned up at a B&B we thought we had booked on the internet but they had no idea who we were, let alone accept that we had already prepaid 10% ...

Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Kosice

A travel blog entry by laine

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Visiting old friends on the other side of Europe, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Visiting old friends on the other side of Europe

A travel blog entry by kellyjo

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... . So I met Andrea and Drahus at 2:30 and we headed to lunch. It was our goal this trip to give me a whirlwind taste of Slovakia, mainly the food. So I had fried cheese and a pilsner and their friend Martha from Texas came and hung out, and we had a great ...

Easy Listening, Košice, Slovakia travel blog

Easy Listening

A travel blog entry by eundel

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... . Buying the ticket was very easy because the agent spoke fluent English. She even helped me pick-out a seat because movies in Slovakia used reserved seats. Buying popcorn, since I'd skipped lunch, was more difficult. I wanted a medium popcorn, and the ...

Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Kosice

A travel blog entry by samuvk

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City in the east of ...

Luge ride, entering Slovakia, Cage of Shame, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Luge ride, entering Slovakia, Cage of Shame

A travel blog entry by carleenrenee

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... on these little sleds, that careen around the turns of the metal course. After Zakopane, we took the bus to the Poland/Slovakia border, and walked across. It was raining as we crossed the border. After getting our passports stamped, we walked a bit ...

I never thought i would see the day! well i ..., Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

I never thought i would see the day! well i ...

A travel blog entry by grinspinner

... 's, never mind there is always a modelling career my dear girls. Next day on the train again as i travelled to Bratislava, Slovakia (Country No. 11). Got accosted by Anna at the train station and used my middle eastern bargaining skills to pick up some ...

63 km, Hrabusice, Slovakia travel blog

63 km

A travel blog entry by jimmymacfad

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Beautiful scenery , brilliant downhill sections, reached a top speed and trip record of 69 kph.  Arrived in Poprad having seen another of my species, though not nearly as friendly as I am, so left him alone. Found a campsite 15 km south east of ...

34 km, Spisska Nova Ves, Slovakia travel blog

34 km

A travel blog entry by jimmymacfad

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Woke up at dawn, and found mushroom which I'd been told were good to eat, cooked them with olive oil and pepper, delicious. Funny things fungi, sometimes they make magic and sometimes fanno fatale. At this point I'd done about 300 km of really ...

Technically Aided, Slovensky Raj, Slovakia travel blog

Technically Aided

A travel blog entry by eundel

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Today was my big (planned) hiking day in Slovakia. I went back over to Slovensky Raj to try some of their real trails. Most of the trails, or at least the trails they bragged about, in "Slovak Paradise" went through or alongside gorges. They were not like ...

The names of things, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

The names of things

A travel blog entry by gadelle

... I know, some I don't. I'd especially like to know what those little dark pink ones were. The rain stopped just as I arrived in Kosice and I found a place to stay without too much trouble. I'll say the same thing (so far) about the Slovaks as I said ...

Trebisov, Trebisov, Slovakia travel blog

Trebisov

A travel blog entry by david.kairis

... accepted! we then preceded to start our drinking day with them, which continued on into Hungary! Spent an amazing time in Slovakia, which has great mountains and countryside, not to mention the people! of course im still skipping a HUGE amount, ...

Meeting up with Stani, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Meeting up with Stani

A travel blog entry by travelinsara

Morning with Babka Bublava, breakfast, afternoon at the lake, evening out with mom for ...

Weekend in Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Weekend in Kosice

A travel blog entry by pajas

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... there was a edge of 10m down to the river but it was possible to climb down. After crossing the border to Slovakia I felt like in a diffrent world! Finally it was possible to fill petrol by paying with creditcard, there were supermarkets without to ...

Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Kosice

A travel blog entry by david.kairis

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Well, we left Budapest and entered Slovakia relativly quickly, getting a couple of short rides out of the town, then two sets of HGVs took us all the way to the Slovakian town of Kosice, close to the Hungarian boarder. Once we disembarked we realised, ...

Welcome to Ugly Town!, Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia travel blog

Welcome to Ugly Town!

A travel blog entry by mrconfused

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... . The church didn't even seem all that special, but the views of town were quite nice. From Levoca, we went to Spissky Hrad, Slovakia's largest castle ruins, and damned impressive they were too. From a distance, at least. Once we were inside, they felt a ...

Last Day in Slovakia, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Last Day in Slovakia

A travel blog entry by sponger42

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On our last day in Kosice, we got up long before dawn because we had parked our rental car on a side street when we were supposed to return it to the Airport by 7PM the previous night. So, we returned to the car, found it mercifully intact with no ...

Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Kosice

A travel blog entry by cadkinsca

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Right after I say there are no festivals until June, I stumble across the next best thing - a national holiday - in Kosice, Slovakia. Monday, May 8, was "Victory Over Fascism Day" to celebrate when the Russians "liberated" Czechoslovakia from the ...

Rumination No. 2 - On Tipping, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Rumination No. 2 - On Tipping

A travel blog entry by cadkinsca

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Derivative, Non-PC, Shallow, Ameri-Centric Frivolous Rumination No. 2 - on Tipping in a Cheap County Should I leave 10, 15 Krone or 20 Krone on a 200 Krone check?!?! I hate to admit it, but I find my self thinking about this more than I would like. ...

Kosice; Hospitality Slovakian Style!, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Kosice; Hospitality Slovakian Style!

A travel blog entry by sponger42

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We arrived in Kosice after a grueling 7-hour train ride across the entire country of Slovakia. Our incredibly-helpful and considerate host met us near the train station and escorted us to our lodging. We immediately knew we would enjoy Slovakia when we ...

Slovakia stop off, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

Slovakia stop off

A travel blog entry by emilynics

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... office....Tesco's is unfortunately in town in a big way and now dominates shopping in for groceries in most places in Slovakia and Hungary...it became our local store...arrrgggghhhh...We got there on a Thursday late and by Saturday morning the place was ...

Hrabusice, Slovensky Raj, Hrabusice, Slovakia travel blog

Hrabusice, Slovensky Raj

A travel blog entry by ced

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The End, Kosice, Slovakia travel blog

The End

A travel blog entry by tsimko

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... meeting Taliban in Pakistan - surfing tourist-free Iraqi Kurdistan - smoking nargileh in Syria People and even Lonely Planet say Slovakia’s got gorgeous women. I don’t disagree with that, just want to emphasise also beauty of Asian ladies. ...

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