Hotel Patria Kosice
Strbske Pleso Kosice, Kosice, 05985, Slovakia
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... or part of a monastery, and three monks sent to renew Catholicism in the town were killed in the building by Calvinists. The three were important martyrs for Hungarian Catholics. The church had a strong association with Hungary and a Hungarian mass was still given in addition to a mass in Slovakian. I didn't ask the woman if she was ethnically Hungarian, in case that was a sensitive subject, but I did notice her speaking Hungarian to a woman who was leaving as I entered, ...
The beauty of the Tatras
... which is a no) and the she told me to wait and started to punch buttons into her mobile phone. About five minutes later, she proceeded to make hand gestures and started talking more basic English and informs me she lives close by to the Ginger Monkey, thank god.. So we hop off together and awkwardly walk side by side in silence towards a hill. As we reached the top of the hill, next to a church she points to the Ginger Monkey and I thanked her profusely.
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Fresh water
13:15 Mala zastavka v tejto dedine, kde zistujeme, ze sa tu nachadza novy cykloobchod. Dobre vediet ... A capujeme si aj novu vodu z miestneho pramena, ktory je nedaleko starej banskej klopacky, inak krasne zrekonstruovanej. Volam oat s Ripom, ktory je opat v Mexiku :) Stretavame sa tu ...
Kosice
Although Kosice has only about 250,000 people it is the Slovak Republic's second largest city (behind Bratislava). It is not usually on many traveling itineraries, but we kind of like it that way. It has a beautiful old town yet doesn't have that let's-cater-solely-to-the-hordes-of-tou rists-that-visit-here-so-they-will-spen d-all-of-their-money façade put on that we saw in many of the places we have visited. It felt very real. One of the first things we noticed ...
Along the Tatranska Magistrala, in the fog
... the precipitous set of switchbacks that we had looked up at ten days earlier. Now it was our turn to descend them. We didn't feel so tired now, as we picked our way nearly 500 metres down the switchbacks. It took us about 45 minutes, and finally we walked around the lakeshore to the hut. We were very glad to get down and finally sign in. This time we were in room 306, which was up two regular flights of stairs and then up a narrow set of metal stairs. It ...


