Slovan Kosice

Tak to bol teda zjazd. Po zltej ... mne pistali gumy ako na starych ocelovych bicykloch a Valerovi smrdeli kotucove :) A prestavali brzdit :)<br><br>Odtialto pokracujeme v podstate rovinkou, Hnileckou cyklomagistralov do Nalepkova. Na telefone nam vyborne pomaha Ripo s vyhladavanim ubytovannia. Este raz, DAKUJEME!<br>

Our flight was late leaving Bratislava to Kosice but we ended up arriving around 7:00pm. My mother and cousin picked us up at the airport and we headed to my Ceta's place. My mother and Babi flew to Kosice, Slovakia on Aug 9th and are coming back to Canada on the 30th. Our night consisted of supper, a few shots, visiting with family and going to bed. The next day we eat a lot, drank a lot, walked around, visited with family and random people that kept dropping by ...

... slices of a massive dumpling... and damn tasty.   After sleeping off the feast, we headed out to explore a little more the next morning.  We were walking through the open produce market when a café caught our eye so we headed in for a break.  Apparently it was only their third day of business and they seemed so dedicated to making the place work.  We purchased our usual Cappuccino (meg) and Double Espresso (kev) for a whopping 2 euros and then were given a free ...

So, another day, another country! We crossed the border from Hungary to Slovakia on our way up north to the Baltics. Slovakia's really small north to south (only just over 100km from border to border) but it's known for its picturesque mountains and pine forest national parks. We passed by Kosice, with a cathedral that was very black Gothic inside (and a little creepy) and where only very recently (1996) they'd discovered the old medieval town a storey ...

... that spent a month with us in NY in 1968. Corey re-found them by googling them up, sent them an email....and the rest is simple...they were very happy to hear we planned to visit...but still I really didn't know exactly what to expect... Well, it turns out that these are cousins of my fathers...and their children. They know all my relatives on this side of the world...apparently only a small fragment of the Kotlars ever made it to the US and by ...

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... 000. Probably because everyone is living in 10 story high buildings full of 12 foot square boxes. There is actually a very small part of the city center that is beautiful. It has an amazingly well preserved gothic style church with trees and fountains. I shot a few really good ...

... a taxi takes me by a long route in a city I don't know. But I can control what I tip. And I enjoy that the food/drink prices here come inclusive of tax and all but a token tip. In other words, if the menu says the steak is 339 Krone ($11), I can leave that on the table without calculating tax, or tip if I choose not to tip. More typically, though people will leave a round number like 350 Krone. I feels cheap, however, if I don't tip well, particularly when I do the math and ...

... wife. She was trembling and clearly shaken. "There is a bear down the path," the man said. "We heard him several times." The man suggested I walk with them to their chalet, two hours back up the mountain. I couldn't face the walk back and bear attacks are so infrequent here (only four recorded in the past twenty years, none fatal) that I decided to risk a mauling and keep walking. "Brown bears are 2.5 metres tall and weigh 300 kgs," the man added, somewhat ...