Kosice
Travel Blogs from Kosice, Slovakia
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Easter in Slovakia
... 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
... 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 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
... 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
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 ...
Slovakia weekend
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
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% ...
Visiting old friends on the other side of Europe
... . 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
... . 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 ...
Luge ride, entering Slovakia, Cage of Shame
... 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 ...
... '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
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
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
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
... 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
... 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
Morning with Babka Bublava, breakfast, afternoon at the lake, evening out with mom for ...
Weekend in Kosice
... 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
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!
... . 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
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
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
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!
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
... 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 ...
The End
... 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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