Written by Wildcat Dianne on April 20, 2008
- In a scene from one of my favorite movies, 2005's Czech film Zelary, the main character Hana, who is hiding from the Nazis in a remote mountain village called Zelary, gets a lesson from one...
Written by Wildcat Dianne on October 6, 2007
- Trencin, Slovakia is one of the oldest cities in Slovakia, if not Europe, too. Physical evidence of Trencin dates from c. 38,000 B.C., but the first written history of Trencin doesn't appear in books...
Written by Wildcat Dianne on July 8, 2007
- Out of all of the places I have visited in my lifetime of travels, the place that fascinates me the most and earns a return visit is the haunted ruins of Hrad Cachtice in Western...
Written by UK Flower Girl on December 5, 2005
- Wooden Protestant Articular Church open 9-12 and 2-5 daily May-SeptemberNew Evangelical Church open open 9-12am and 2-5pm daily, May-SeptemberAfter our morning on the mountains, we were looking for some culture or history. We drove east...
Written by UK Flower Girl on December 5, 2005
- Driving: Infrastructure wasn’t an issue at all along here. Petrol (gas) stations were available when we needed one. Roads were much better than I had expected and driving along the country roads was actually a...
Written by UK Flower Girl on December 5, 2005
- We left Budapest just after 8am our last morning in Hungary. We went north from Budapest on the 2A and then the 2 through the countryside and past the Danube Bend up to the Hungary/Slovakia...
Written by Wildcat Dianne on January 8, 2006
- As I mentioned before, my friend Ivan took me on many bike rides around his home of Borovce, Slovakia. The most grueling ride was in May 2002 with him and his brother Bohus (bo-hoosh) from...
Written by Wildcat Dianne on April 20, 2008
- Every bike ride into the Slovakian woods to sightsee and get exercise there was a little lesson from Ivan on herbs and other edible plants that grew wild in the forests and open fields scattered...
Written by Wildcat Dianne on October 2, 2007
- Hlohovec, Slovakia is located in Western Slovakia about 30km from the spa town of Piestany. It has seen numerous foreign armies run through there, and it has been occupied by many foreign powers and...
Written by mariakarob on September 24, 2006
- BEWARE: You have to buy tickets to use buses and stamp them within a minute of entering the bus. The scam works like this.
Tourists come to the bus. One of them stamps the ticket,...
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