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Snow
Today was the day of ALL days. If you thought your children came to Europe with the main focus to compete in an International Choir Competition, you are so very wrong. It was the snow boarding that stole the highlight of the tour thus far. What a fantastic day in the snow - we were privileged enough to have a mini snow storm and this built the excitement before the mountain races commenced. Mary-Lou ...
High Tatras
... ricos, etc. En ^Štrbské Pleso hay un gran lago y unas sillas para subir a la montaña. Nosotros fuimos a pie siguiendo las rutas hasta llegar a unas pequeñas cascadas en la montaña. Desde otro de estos pueblitos hay un teleférico que te lleva a lo más alto de las montañas pero no pudimos ir porque cierra temprano.
Ya de vuelta en Poprad salimos a comer algo y a ver ...
Sauerkraut and strudel
... we though, being a Sunday. We also had to catch another bus to the castle after we got off the train - would that run on a Sunday? Maybe if we had an earlier start we would have tried it, but it was now lunchtime so we gave up on option 2 as well. Option 3 - wander around Stary Smokovec and see what there was. Not much as it turned out. We found a hot food booth, where ...
We are cursed.
... and once the snow starting getting thicker we did debate calling it quits. But after asking a descending tramper how far it was to hut and finding out it was only 10 minutes we carried on. Shame to come so far and then turn back just short. The hut was a welcome sight. Aparrently the views are amazing. Google photos will have to inform us on that one as still, all we could see was white cloud with visibility down to 30m or so.
Hot food to refuel was ...
High Tatras, we finally made it!
... we managed to buy tickets, sprint for the platform (conveniently platform 1 right outside the ticket office) and jump on board with only seconds to spare!
After such a dramatic rush to get on the train, it was a huge disappointment when the train left 5 minutes late. I forgot, Eastern European trains always leave late. The train was packed, we were left standing at the end of a cabin for a 4 hour journey to Poprad. After an hour or so ...