Penzion Fortuna Poprad

The Tatra Mountains are the natural border between Poland and Slovakia, and there has always been this question of which part is more beautiful. The secret is as follows: they are too different to compare. The Polish part is full of people, noise, activities, shops and festivals. The Slovakian part is quiet, peaceful and almost virgin-like, despite its well-developed infrastructure. It's simply because it's much ...

Medzi Delavou a Hnilcom je to snad este krajsie. Rieka Hnilec, cyklocesta, luky a jednokolajka. Sem tam okolo nas prebehne jednovagonka. Je naozaj prijemne, mame stastie na pocasie. Dufajme, ze nam to takto vydrzi, dnes malo povodne cely den prsat .

Hnilec ma velmi prekvapil. Cakal som doslova nejaku cigansku dedinu no aj ked tu zjavne ziju, je tu cisto, klud. Atmosferu umocnuje krasne pocasie, je prijemne teplo. Spravili sme si tu malu prestavku a ...

... with jacuzzi but, nonetheless, it still has the atmosphere of a small hamlet nestled at the foot of the mountains.

So as not to come out too biased, let me describe briefly the biggest drawback of Bukowina Tatrzańska, which is its location. It is situated on the hills, and thus no street is horizontal. If you want to go anywhere, you should take into account that at least one way you'll be climbing up. It's a problem if ...

... look more carefully at the number of train/bus transfers to get to the locations before considering them. We did not get to check out one area - "Slovakian Paradise" because we got a late start and I had a sore ankle so we will have to do it later this week. Tomorrow I meet with some real Estate agents so pray that that goes well.

... not wanting to spend too long hiking back in the dark. The views got the better of us though, and we found ourselves traversing the entire distance back to the car in complete darkness. It was a long day, but we saw three amazing sites. The weather was stunning, and given it was a winter Sunday there weren't too many tourists about. We kept our fingers crossed that the weather would hold for the following day, as we planned to do more hiking in the stunning mountain range.

... create the town with 55,000 inhabitants. The other parts were the present urban parts - Matejovce (1251), Spisská Sobota (1256), Veľká (1268), and Stráze under Tatras (1276). The most significant town out of these herein mentioned was Spisská Sobota, which has preserved its dominant position till the end of the 19th century. On January 1st, 1923, on base of the Government regulation Nm. 257/1922, Poprad became a large village with an established municipality. Since January ...

... restaurant. I had (Translated to English) "Pie with sheep cheese". It was really just pasta shells, filled with sheep cheese in a butter sauce with bacon on it. Supposedly a very classic slovak dish, and ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!!! I loved it. Then we went to a huge gorge and hiked for the rest of the after noon. it was so nice to be out in nature. And most of the time I forgot I was halfway around the world because it looked like i was just in Caledonia. we stopped at the mall to ...

... Went home and spent the rest of the evening nursing a flu-like feeling so got to bed pretty early. Woke up to find the flu gone, and a nice lightheaded dizziness in its place. Less than ideal for the mountain hiking I'd had planned. I killed a few hours reading & napping, and around noon figured that wasting this gorgeous day would be almost as foolish as putting it to good use. Feeling a tad better I navigated the hostile train station staff and ...

... At that part I started to get a dip. We were three, and we almost met no backpackers like us. As a logical result, annoyances and irritations started to arise. Me, I was glad that this day was over in the evening. I looked forward to go to Kosice the next day. Originally, we planned to go to the Slovensky raj, a special nature reserve with gorges and an ice cave. Unfortunately, every pension mentioned in the Lonely Planet was full. So we carried out plan B: go to the east.

... the bus, because we didn´t camp in the village, but on a camping 4 km away. We bought the map, and started walking, like Forrest Gump. The first part was magnificent. It was a narrow gorge with a little stream on the bottom; the name of the stream was something like Hocus Pocus stream. It was also crowded with Slovaks, fleeing the sounds of the folk festival. The Hocus Pocus went through the gorge in a range of waterfalls and rapids. The track went ...