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The end of the endless spring / honey
... also saw lots of fresh honey being sold next to the road. Which we happily bought to put on the bread and in the yogurt.
There was one amazing thing we had to learn: you don't need flowers to have honey! Apparently, there is some kind of disease of Oak trees that makes them produce some kind of very thick liquid. This syrup is hanging from their leaves to protect them from something. From it the bees are also capable of making honey, and it tasted great!
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Voyaging to vienna
Today we drove to Vienna, past Bratislava, which is at the border between Slovakia and Austria. The drive was nice but uneventful, and we drove straight to a camp site on the south west side of the city. We set up camp and then headed to the airport as.one of Lee's friend’s. Par, who he met in Australia 8 years ago had decided to fly down to Vienna to meet us with his girlfriend, which was ...
Playing in prasice
... realized that we were sitting with the choir, not good! But we found a spot and everything was fine. There were not many people of our age at mass, but you could tell that there were some families of different generations. They didn’t have a collection plate, which was the first time we have seen that in Europe, but there were contribution boxes in case you did want to donate.
After mass we wandered around the town, and looked in ...
Sobering and Encouraging
... of Cyril and Methodius, the Christian missionaries who brought the gospel in 863. They had been invited by the king to come and tell the people. Cyril inventing an alphabet for the slavic languages that is still used in Russia, Bulgaria and other countries called the "Cyrillic" alphabet after him.
The next day would also be a holiday in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia commemorating the 498th anniversary of the martyrdom of John Huss.
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Ideme na to!
... si vsetko oprat. Ja som si zbalil veci len na tyzden a potom sa uvidi. Mato s Ivkou letia uz o 15:00 a my si este dve hodiny pockame. Esterka si privlastnila cele Viedenske letisko a behala po celom letisku, stvornozkovala a behala po vsetkych obchodoch. Uz sme boli radi, ze ideme do lietadla. Najprv kratky hop do Frankfurtu a potom fijuuuu na juh. 10 a pol hodiny priamo na juh. Esterka uz mala tento krat ...