Grand Praha Tatranska Lomnica

The Tatra Mountains are the natural border between Poland and Slovakia, and there has always been this question whose part is more beautiful. The secret is as follows: they are too different to compare. The Polish part is full of people, noise, activities, shops and festivals. The Slovakian part is quiet, peaceful and almost virgin-like, despite its well-developed infrastructure. It's simply because it's much bigger and ...

Medzi Delavou a Hnilcom je to snad este krajsie. Rieka Hnilec, cyklocesta, luky a jednokolajka. Sem tam okolo nas prebehne jednovagonka. Je naozaj prijemne, mame stastie na pocasie. Dufajme, ze nam to takto vydrzi, dnes malo povodne cely den prsat .

Hnilec ma velmi prekvapil. Cakal som doslova nejaku cigansku dedinu no aj ked tu zjavne ziju, je tu cisto, klud. Atmosferu umocnuje krasne pocasie, je prijemne teplo. Spravili sme si tu malu prestavku a ...

Prvy Hamor, Stredny Hamor, Zadny Hamor - Delava. Krasny usek, ciste a upravene chalupy, zije to tu chaluparmi. Delava je mala osada, par domov. Vidime tabulku potraviny, no miestny nam oznamuje, ze su davno zrusene. Cesta z Nalepkova az sem je asflatova, popri zeleznici. Miestami prechadza do strkovej. Ticho, slnko, este ranny opar. Za Dolnou Delavou je stary cintorin, s celkom peknou atmosferou - ak sa to tak da o cintorine povedat.

... vroeger 12,000 ha bos was geweest, waren nu alleen nog wat ontwortelde boomstronken en een heleboel lieve lila bloempjes te zien.

We kwamen laat in de middag in ons mooie communistische hotel aan, dus er was alleen nog tijd om de 'Waldweg' (lila bloempjes-weg dus) terug naar het dorp te wandelen en daar een pivotje te drinken. 's Avonds was er een traditioneel Slowakisch buffet in ons hotel, met leuke traditionele muziek en heel veel vlees en dumplings en bijna letterlijk niets ...

... Siklawa (about 3.5h hours way up and 2.5h way down). There is a small mountain hostel in the valley on the shore of one of the lakes, and you should have a 'szarlotka' cake there; it's a traditional apple pie with castor sugar and cinnamon.

If you don't really like trekking, take a car and drive to some villages around Bukowina. The views are stunning, you'd be really surprised. Try to find the ...

Before any smart comment, we are not here to play tetras! We cross the boarder Slovakia today to the Tatras Mountains. It's a popular destination for skiing (in winter) and hiking (in summer). It's autumn now so I suppose you can do both! Actually, no... There weren't a lot of snow when we were there - thou apparently it was snowing 6-7 weeks ago (extremely early even for this part of the world) and it snowed the day after we left. But on the day we went ...

... years ago. First stop: Auschwitz. We walked just a few yards into the camp through the infamous iron gate that all prisoners walked through with the words "Arbeit Macht Frei" = Work will set you free. The gates were surrounded by heavy barbed wire with another electrically wired fence, followed by one more barbed wire fence. All parts of the camp that we saw were as they were in 1945 and well preserved. Inside the camp we saw many of the blocks where unimaginable ...

We had to go into town for money and to buy food for our picnic lunch. The kids also rode the "bobsled" a couple of times -- looks like a fun way to come down the hill. From the hotel, we walked to the base of the cable car -- no lines and no waiting to the top of the mountain. It was a fun ride up, and, given the steepness of the trail, I'm glad we decided to ride. We had a long ...

... another 2 hours before I was where I wanted to be. Undeterred, I dutifully followed the paths through increasing levels of snow, until the halfway point, where the previously trodden path obvously hadn't been walked for a while - I had to admit defeat after attempting to walk a couple of hundred metres through 2 ft of snow. 2 hours after leaving, I returned to 'Start' and caught the cable car. Finally at the trail head, I took a few moments to ...

... the labels (usually its easy to find the non gas one) so i just stood there until an old lady came to by water, and chose the other bottle. It worked! If a cashier asks you something, just shake your head no - 99% of the time they are asking if you have change or a smaller bill. Sometimes ( i started noticing this in sicily but it just happend to me here in slovakia) if you dont have the change they will just ...