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Bacikova 18 Kosice, Kosice, 040 01, Slovakia
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We head west, via Slovakia
... their way from America? Or did they blare out propaganda and cheerful Communist party songs to spur the comrades on to yet greater productivity? Or did they simply serve as communal radios? As is true so often when one travels, what’s obvious to the locals remained opaque to us visitors.
Soon it was time for lunch. We pulled off the highway at the first city of any size we came to: Michalovce, population ~40,000. Only later, through the ...
Easy Listening
... square, specifically something my guidebook called "the Musical Fountain". What do you think it was? I had envisioned something like the Sea Organ in Zadar, Croatia, where the movement of the water caused the pipes to play music. I was not on the right track.
When I arrived in town, I found the fountain without using a map. I was drawn to the correct area because I heard an instrumental version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" playing somewhere in the main square. ...
Bikes are ready to start ...
Seems that weather gets better ... we checked our bikes & planned to buy some additional equipment for a backup. Please, let the weather stay good ! ;) I also updated the trip map (see http://goo.gl/maps/Shgm). We changed our plans - Orava is next destination from Liptov.
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Photos sorted but camera screen is busticated
... of fishermen all dressed in camouflage hiding from the fish.
I had to go up the mountain the river went through and then met up with it again and took a tea-break. There were two other cyclists next to the river, half dead on benches. I wrongly assumed they had drunk so much Boroviska the night before that they were seriously hungover, I boiled enough water to make tea for them too. They enjoyed the tea but not as a hangover cure but ...
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 tickets or flat tires, drove through spotty rain to the airport, which we missed twice due to the difficulty of navigating a crazy ...



