Slovakia
Travel Blogs from Slovakia
Mountains and Caves
With a bad first impression of Poprad as we pulled into the station, we consulted the "bible" which advised to stay in Stary Smokovec, a village 30min away by electric train in the hills. Thank you Lonely Planet as it was lonely. Went for a ...
On the train to to Brastislava
When we finally found out what train we were catching we made our way to the platform. The ticket cost us 56aud for return trip for 2 x people, so very cheap. We were expecting to be sitting with the cattle and chickens but when we finally found our ...
Slovakia, Day 12 - 14
... realise that a global pandemic is on the verge of breaking out. As we understand there are no cases as yet in Slovakia but a Japanese tourist in Stary Smokovec was taking no chances and had his face mask on! Shelved our plans for a second walk ...
Bratislava a la Martina
... and rich. The best thing ever! Later she drove me to Devin the junction of the rivers Morava and Danube where Slovakia and Austria meet. There are old ruins from the Castle Devin as well as some sad stories from history. Later, ...
At the bus station in Bratislava
I only spent a few hours in Bratislava as I was waiting to change buses to go back to Prague. When I had got off the bus from Budapest the very kind bus driver wanted to help me with my coat which he did (What a gentleman). I had 3 hours to wait for the ...
Just Monkeying Around
... on the map. I rode back to the border then took a forestry road along the river that forms the border between Poland and Slovakia. It was nice to have an unladen bike on my favorite kind of road (good gravel) and great scenery through the pine forest ...
Untitled Slovakia Blog Entry
... . I was also interested in seeing the wooden churches in the area. There were three types of wooden church in Slovakia: Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and something called "articular" Protestant Churches. At one point there were also apparently a few wooden ...
Start in Kittsee
Der Start Samstag 6:30, ich habe bei der Herfahrt den Eindruck, dass das ganze Burgenland noch schläft und nach Parndorf geht es zu den verschlafensten Winkeln die hier zu finden sind Kittsee, alles ist ruhig. Doch auf einem Parkplatz herrscht ...
Levoca
... off dinner!!! The main drawcard for this area though is Spisske Podhradie and nearby Spisske Kapitula. The former is Slovakia's largest castle which sits proudly atop a hill in the middle of rolling countryside. There were heaps of gophers ...
Calvary and Castles
Yesterday, on the Banská Štiavnica Old Castle tour, you may remember the one room I had seen that really caught my attention was the room of wooden sculptures from the Calvary Mount. Before leaving town, I decide to see if I could climb the actual ...
Captial of Slovakia
I had never heard of Bratislava before arriving in the town. There has been so much upheaval over the centuries and the people in this area have endured much but the area is being developed and has the potential to be a very lovely town. ...
Bratislava,Levice,Piestany,Zair Nad Hronom,Zvolen,
... & visited Spa Island which has beautiful Parks,Ponds,Spa Mud bath's, Physio treatments & the 1st & only 5star Hotel in Slovakia. I tried some local Hot fountain spring water that comes from underground & smells like rotten eggs, but suprisingly takes nice ...
Na hrade v Smoleniciach
Clovek v zivote zaziva take skvele veci! Ako napriklad vylet na Smolenicky zamok na ktorom sa o vas staraju ako o naozajstne kniezata. Stretnete sa s kamosmi - pozriete si futbal (miestna ziacka liga. Hrali naozaj o dusu spasenu), vychutnate si spolu s ...
On the Ropes
... so far (with Klis Fortress a close second and the wall at Ston not counting in the castle category). Unlike Hungary, Slovakia was a country that took its castles seriously, without cluttering them with costumed performers, silly wax sculptures or tacky ...
Bratislava
... my new friends in neighboring Vienna I decided to check it out for a night en route to Budapest. Bratislava is the capitol of Slovakia... It's a nice city with lots of history... castles, statues - the usual. At night the bars are lively but the streets ...
The Blue Danube
... date. Can't say I am sad about missing 4/20 in Boulder. Although I could have probably picked a more celebratory place to be in Europe. Amsterdam maybe? Oh well, Slovakia was perfectly adequate to avoid the entire mess. Hope everyone had a good/safe ...
Balenie a priprava
Viza, poistka, peniaze, letenka, oblecenie - do zimy aj na plaz ... a milion inych drobnosti na ktore clovek musi mysliet pred tym ako si v lietadle spomenie: "Ved toto by sa mi zislo..." ... tak a je znova cas balenia a priprav. Vzdy to mam velmi rad. ...
Today's the day!
July 2 (Saturday), Wedding Day, Krivan Well, today's the day. Arguably the most important day of my life. And it's raining. Ironic, don't you think? It's not like it's a shower either. This is grey sky as far as the eye can see, no wind, here for ...
Recovering
July 3 (Sunday), Zvolen/Krivan We woke up at 11am, only because the bus back to Krivan was to leave at 1pm, after a very sound 5 hour sleep. There were a few weary-looking faces back at the Pension Quattro, so we swapped a few yarns and commiserated ...
Slovakia weekend
... The drive is about 2 hours or so through mostly Hungarian countryside and then a little bit up into the mountains in Slovakia. I thought it was beautiful. You pass through mostly small towns and villages and farm land that eventually is surrounded by ...
These sandals were made for walking
... I save... 80 cents! I think I failed to really mention the countryside around here, but it's beautiful. This part of Slovakia is very hilly (I can't in all truth say mountainous), with little villages nestled in the valleys or perched on the ...
Downer
... at right angles, it's been rather cloudy today, so my sense of direction is somewhat off. The tourist language of choice in Slovakia is German; apparently they get oodles and oodles of Austrian tourists around here, it's so close by. That's why I get ...
Slovakia, Day 10 - 11
Only one full day here before pushing on to the High Tatras, which we spent visiting Spis Castle. You'd think we would have learned our lesson by now as far as Slovakian castles are concerned! Alfie Roose had nothing on Sam after we slogged ...
After the Rain comes the Sun
So after some miserable luck with my health and the weather and accommodation or the lack of it in Vienna i headed off to Bratislava Its amazing how much things can change in 70km in Europe. Bratislava's one claim to ...
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% ...
Slovakia
Wow, a really bad trip, I think it was the worst of all my trips. We started with Slovakia where I already was disappointed....! Weather was bad, food disgusting and our hotel (a 4 star hotel which seemed to be one of the best of the country) was out of ...

