Lux Banska Bystrica

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... named Propad and parked Karl in a street across from a local pub/restaurant. We had a scrumptious dinner in the restaurant and asked the rather cute waitresses where we could find a bar (at this point I should tell you that Lonely Planet states that Slovaki is known for its Ice Hockey and Beautiful Women). We went to a bar/nightclub and had a few beers. In the bar it was quite evident that the gender roles in Slovaki differ slightly to Australia. We enjoyed noticing the ...

... holder. This basic and inexpensive concept involves affixing an attachment to the wall on which you hang the shower head while you shower. This leaves your hands free to do what you went into the shower to do - i.e. wash yourself, rather than spend the whole time trying to do everything one-handed. * While on the subject of showers, we are amazed how few of you have thought of actually cordoning off a part ...

... platform as the train begins to roll forward. I am still hopeful that he will burst out one of the stairwells and grab onto the last car of the train hoisting himself through the door. However, the train speeds forward and no one else gets on as Zachodnia train station disappears into the gray cracked concrete of Warsaw. Several weeks back my friend Michal had mentioned a homo oriented outdoor club called GIL and that there was a planned hiking excursion to the Tatra mountains in ...

... of the Low Tatra Mountains. Big, heavy rocks dropped down below us to a harsh step in the mountain, where snow-slides dipped to a flatter spot. I saw the air between those singing, magnificent rocks as nothing; the air as silence; peace. It was a new way to see! All things were merely wonderful disturbances in the nothing. I could easily feel their forms, to see things as they were. And this had been a goal of mine in ...

... that close to the mountians. Not that this was a bad thing. Luckily for us, Banska Bystrica turned out to be a very beautiful little place full of beautiful people, and was considered as a possibility for the capital of the country due to it's more central location. During WW2, when Slovakia was allied with the Germans under fascist rule, BB was the centre of the resistance movement and was the scene of ...

... me to a pension or hostel. I found no-one that could. Sitting on the steps of a church, I was contemplating sleeping rough for the night when I heard voices. Irish voices. They seemed so out of place, but at that point, so welcome. Bizzarely, they turned out to be a group of scouts, though what they were doing in Banska Stiavnica I never quite determined. They did lead me to the scout house, though, where I ended up with a rather nice room to myself for the night. Isn't ...

... then I had been surprisingly sober, despite having quite a few beers over the course of the night. It started to get light outside at around 4am, which was a little weird given that it had only really gotten dark at around 10pm. By 6am there were about 15 of us left, drinking and basically getting a bit messy, falling over and so on. Some castle guy came in and told us that we have to go, so we staggered out. Jane and I staggered faster than the others, down to our hotel, and ...

... of the village, with neighbours on three sides and an unfarmed field over the back fence. The house was built around 20 years ago and is somewhat quaint inside, yet not without the communist-style functionality and boxiness that all of these houses have. Any calories I burned during my run were quickly compensated for, with interest, by a lunch of 'segidinsky', meat with creamy sauce served with 'knedlik', bready dumpling-type things. The ...

... no dorms beds but since she was the Director of the building she was giving us an apartment. All very good but I did feel extremely guilty when I accidently spilt this paprika sauce from a tin can on what seemed the entire room - it was like a bomb exploded. Spent the next half an hour or so trying to clean the place. Banska Bystrica has a lovely mall/promenade area in the centre of town - most of the small towns do ...