Hotel Linea Piestany

From Bratislava me and my Aussie mate took a train to Trenchin. We had a while to wait before we could get on the train and stocked up on some supplies. I brought myself some an intersting lunch of a a bun a piece of lettece and a Snitzcle that required about 3 buns it was so long. Once on the train it was only a short ride to Trenchin. It was nice to get out the city again and ...

... a conversation with one of the ladies and she volunteered that the people in Spain seemed to be the most arrogant, stuck up people she has ever encountered. Her husband told me their three days there were three days too many, and I felt sort of relieved that other people were getting the same impression. So it's definitely not me just having a bad attitude. That got me to thinking about last night when I was trying to fall asleep in a lumpy bed under a ...

... and strange sausages. It was nice to observe the young dancers really enjoying themselves. There wasn't the slightest feeling that they were doing this because they were pushed into it by their parents. They just seemed to be having so much fun. Yes, there were some impressive churches and nice looking narrow streets as well. I had one last walk around the old town wall then hopped back on ...

Nasu turu okolo Slovenska koncime stylovo - a to v kupeloch. Nasa posledna zastavka pred tym ako skocime do auta a zajtra do sklenika v Zabokrekoch je kupelne mesto Trencianske Teplice. Oproti ostatnym kupelnym mestam posobi velmi zaspato a mozno prave to je jeho ...

... of a visit to the disco just up the road. It was in fact above the restaurant where I would normally hang out. The door was pretty inconspicuous but upstairs it was quite oppulent and disco-y. Which means lots of low lighting and lots of really loud music. I didn't see too many Esperantists there, though there were some. And some had already left judging by what the Slovakian girls that I chatted to said. There was a huge amount of ...

... the afternoon, in Esperanto, on various topics. This was one given by a Slovakian Esperantist from my class, on the nature of language or something. Following that I managed to make one of the Chinese at the course really angry by insisting that Cantonese is not just a dialect of Chinese but a language. It seems to be that everyone from mainland China has the same attitude. I suspect that it's part of the brain-washing from the government. By insisting that ...

... later on up the hill in a park/paddock practising. Jano and his guitar jamming with a Dutch Esperantist. Both usually on hand to provide some musical interlude to the day. Back at the congress centre in the evening, a French Canadian woman asked me whether I'd heard Micha, the Israeli in our class, play the piano. No I replied so off we went to the theatre to find out how talented Micha actually is. Bloody brilliant! It's not every day ...

... a church on Sunday morning in Australia...? Back up the hill, I have indeed ended up in the most advanced class. I think the teacher knows that everyone already speaks pretty bloody good Esperanto so we mainly talk about really tricky bits of grammar, hear some pretty strange bits of not so common vocab, that sort of thing. Plus we're also encouraged to ask lots of questions... something ...

... of a tourist trail which turned out to be rather confusing if you didn't know what you were looking for. Though there were plenty of these impressive villas up in the hills. No doubt holiday homes for the rich from nearby Bratislava. We eventually found the convention centre and it is indeed a surprisingly big building out in the middle of no-where. I was pleased to see a really nice restaurant/café nearby with lots of outdoor seating ...

Got up at 8am and after breakfast walked down to Obchodna and caught a tram up to the main train station. Caught the 9.30am train to Trencin. Arrived in Trencin from Bratislava at 11.30am after a slow train trip. Walked into the town centre past the Piarist Church and the Town Gate and had lunch from a small sandwich shop in the main square. Walked up to Trencin Castle and took in the ...