Pension Svorad Trencin
Palackeho 4 Trencin, Trencin, 91101, Slovakia
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Just the 37km then...
Looking out at the rain from the window of my new flat, it seems hard to believe that just two weeks ago I was wearing Lycra.
Outside.
With a public holiday coming up on the Wednesday, Ned decided it would be a great idea for us to go to the driving range. He'd been asking me whether I was any good at golf since I arrived and I was quite used to him dropping into the conversation just how seriously he took the game, and that he had ...
Yedna Pivo, prosim!
The week had been short but hectic. My triple, back-to-back lessons on Wednesday evening had been as tiring as ever and I was looking forward to getting home and getting my head down. 'Jordan,' Ned said as I packed my things away, 'you know you've got two new classes in the morning?'
'Oh?'
'Yes, I was meant to do them, but I'm already teaching,' he said. It turned out that the lessons (both our usual hour and a half) were with two ...
'Move left, move left...!'
... car park where I'd first learnt the basics of driving...
I fastened my seat-belt and checked several times that I knew for definite where the gear stick was, the handbrake too, I adjusted the mirrors. But I was still worried about the basics - the clutch was foreign to me and would have a different biting point, I'd need to adjust to the weight of the steering and learn how effective (or ineffective) the brakes were. Could ...
Trencin, Searching the Vrskovy Roots
... very excited and impressed that one man drove four hours from eastern Slovakia as he was intrigued enough to see if there is a connection. We plan on following up with them as they want to see if we are related further up the family tree, particularly given that John's dad is from the Trencin area and they believe that the Vrskovys from the area were related. After all, it's not a common ...
Frolicking
... Castle, inside of the castle was mainly a museum. There was a lot of the guide explaining the exhibits and not much else to look at while he was talking because the Communists "restored" the castle interiors by pouring in lots of concrete and adding modern fixtures like tile flooring.
My guide was entertaining, and he spent a little extra time explaining things since I was the only person in the group. We were passed by a slightly larger group on ...


