Hotel Cafe Razy Poprad

The Tatra Mountains are the natural border between Poland and Slovakia, and there has always been this question of which 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 ...

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 ...

... with jacuzzi but, nonetheless, it still has the atmosphere of a small hamlet nestled at the foot of the mountains.

So as not to come out too biased, let me describe briefly the biggest drawback of Bukowina Tatrzańska, which is its location. It is situated on the hills, and thus no street is horizontal. If you want to go anywhere, you should take into account that at least one way you'll be climbing up. It's a problem if ...

Briefly back to Poprad as it's here that we catch the bus from (at 5.30am tomorrow, Sat. 9 May) to get into Poland. Spent our time trying to get up to date with Travelpod (will try to get more photos on but it does take a while so bear with us) and catching the electric train back out into the High Tatras to see more of the mountain range west of Stary Smokovec that we didn't see the last time we were here.

... Slovakia...it seems to be all the rage...headed out that night into Bratislava to an Irish bar (the dubliner)...the town looks like a mini Prague, complete with a few english tools walking around on a stag...having said that i wouldn't mind heading back to Bratislava. In Summary, Slovakia is well worth a visit...savage prices, good weather and nice nice scenary...if you know what i mean.

... Tatry, a collection of small villages adapted for winter tourism, and we stopped the car here to go for a short stroll before the sun went down. The scenery was stunning, but somewhat different to the Polish side, with less development and fewer trees. It was later on at our guesthouse, in the tiny village of Gerlachov, that we found out they had been destroyed by a freak gust of wind a few years earlier. Private homestays were now our preferred choice of ...

... proud of not only the tallest wooden Gothic altar in the world, but also almost untouched urban medieval structure. All herein mentioned facts logically resulted into a predetermined development of the town, as an initial tourist point. Thanks to the philosophy of the elementary tourist base and consequential infrastructure as well as following service structure; the town has begun a challenging transformation process from the originally industrial center to the center of tourism.

... out to be far more of a mission than we had anticipated, and not one best attempted on an unsettled stomach. Due to the efforts of the night before, we didn't quite make the 9 am direct bus. Instead, we were forced to take a train to Poprad and a bus from there, trebling the distance travelled. A twenty minute walk from the overly crowded bus stop/car park brought us to the cave entrance, where we had to pay far too much for entrance tickets. It might have ...

... feeling that accompanies the moment is missing. That is also what I miss in pictures: you see (part of the) landscape, but you miss the feeling. Maybe the photographer has climbed a long way to get the impressive view, and he is very content to have the view. Or perhaps the photographer has been lying awake all night due to some annoying mosquito and doesn't even notice the panorama at that moment. To complete my impressions, I add the feelings I have to the description ...

... Castle in the afternoon. This is a settlement on the Austrian border that has been inhabited for thousands of years, first by the Celts, then by the Romans, the Germans, the Slavs etc. The castle is located on a rock, and the view into Austria is magnificent. In the afternoon I returned to the hostel. What I missed was a place where the backpackers gather, a sort of common room. Such a room gives you the possibility to meet other people, which is vital ...