Bristol Hotel Kosice
Orlia 3 Kosice, Kosice, 040 01, Slovakia
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We head west, via Slovakia
... 8217;t quite been erased. There were plenty of grim gray concrete buildings. And decaying infrastructure galore--we passed many apartment buildings that looked like they’d been uninhabitable for years. Curiously, in most of the villages we drove through we noticed sets of old-fashioned loudspeakers—obviously relics from Soviet times--fastened to the light posts or telephone poles every few blocks. Had they been to warn residents of nuclear ...
Slovakia weekend
... cold and rainy there yesterday. We had breakfast there this morning and then headed home. We got home in the early afternoon, which was really nice because we had the afternoon to be lazy. We ended up walking around a flea market in Debrecen, doing some grocery shopping and then just lazing around at the aparrment. It was a warm, sunny day in Debrecen, so I sat outside on my balcony for a couple of hours and finished a book. I like lazy Sundays.
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Easy Listening
... southeast of Slovakia. When I visited, it was Slovakia's second most populous city, and it was an important town even during Hungarian rule when it was known as Kassa. When Eger fell to the Ottomans, the archbishop moved north to Košice. Košice's cathedral was the easternmost extant Gothic church and contained the grave of Hungarian rebel against the Hapsburgs, Francis II Rákóczi (or Ferenc II in my Hungarian entries).
My first stop in Košice was ...
Photos sorted but camera screen is busticated
... for not having my helmet on.
A day of rain, sunshine, peace and hostility came to a close for me on the banks of a river near Margecany.
September 6th 71 km Total so far 449 km
I awoke at dawn to a cold misty morning, which would have made crawling out of my cocoon highly debatable if it hadn´t been for my about-to-rupture bladder. I packed up and back-tracked along the river bank to Margecany where there were already ...
Kosice; Hospitality Slovakian Style!
... enough, and then immediately head for a warm shower or back into the hot sauna. After returning to our lodgings and showering off, we spent some time planning the next day's adventure and then slept for an hour or so before waking again to watch the final US presidential candidate's debate. The next day would see us renting a car and heading off into the Slovakian countryside on an interesting adventure. Please see our next entry to read all about ...



