City Residence Kosice

Tak to bol teda zjazd. Po zltej ... mne pistali gumy ako na starych ocelovych bicykloch a Valerovi smrdeli kotucove :) A prestavali brzdit :)<br><br>Odtialto pokracujeme v podstate rovinkou, Hnileckou cyklomagistralov do Nalepkova. Na telefone nam vyborne pomaha Ripo s vyhladavanim ubytovannia. Este raz, DAKUJEME!<br>

15:25 chata Erika. Rozlozime si karimatku a vegetime a olovrantujeme.<br>Slnko pali a odisli aj posledny ludia, co si tu grilovali nieco.<br>Novozrekonstruovany hotel je prazdy. Okrem straznej sluzby tam nie je<br>nikto. Skoda toho hotela, aj ked nevieme, ako by sa mohol asi uzivit. <br><br>Az sa nam nechce ist prec :)

... Sunday had arrived again so pretty much everything was closed including the archeological museum. So what does one do with 3 or so hours to spare before the next train? The answer is ********** load of coffee and cake (all at ridiculously cheap prices), then buy an ice cream and go catch the train. Very nice town if only everything was open. And a very cheap place to buy cake.

... and onto Kosice....here comes Emily the tour guide again.....the 2nd largest City in Slovakia and it has to be said the quaintest, quietest City ever....We stayed really central after winging it to get a bed for the night through the local tourist 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 ...

... bolo aj v Presove. S tym rozdielom, ze sme vpalili rovno na pesiu zonu asi 20 metrov od policajtov, ktori nastastie pozerali opacnym smerom. Tak sme to rychlo otocili a pobrali sa kade lahsie. Zaparkovali sme obdalec a vrhli sa do viru centra Presova.

... what happened. The woman looked at one bottle and my Mum told her that it was contact lenses solution, in the hope that this would somehow be ok. And it was! Can you believe it, you hear of people having to throw away lipsticks and tiny things like that and they let me through with 1.5 litres of liquid and my Mum with a Ram's skull. We must look really really innocent, either that or this whole "no liquids" thing is just a complete farce.

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... all that, I had a blast Saturday night. After a rather heavy and questionable meal of Slovak-style pork with dumplings (which are more like sliced bread than what I call dumplings, and I was teased by the waitress when she found me tearing them with my hands rather than cutting them with a knife), I wandered around a couple bars trying what I took to calling "the Veetchas." That is an attempt to phonetically spell the suffix of all the various liquors distilled ...

... We ordered what we thought were dumplings. Knedle, according to the Lonely Planet guidebook, are dumplings. In reality, they are small pieces of white sandwich bread, warmed, with the crusts cut off. We went out to wait for the bus at 1, but it never showed up, so we just waited for the next bus, which arrived at 2:45. Right before the bus arrived, a group of school children arrived, and pushed their way in front of us and onto the bus. So when we got ...

... buttered garlic trout and a spicy goulash soaked in slices of knedle (dumpling). Slovak food has bits and pieces of Austrian, Hungarian and German cuisine mixed into its thick, syrupy sauces. Just as good are the pastry cafes. The Slovaks love their kaciaren (pastry shops), which serve fruit puddings and fried custard-filled pastries for loose change. I met a local boy, Shapron, who the night before had pointed the way to a cash machine. I bought him a beer ...