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24 July 2018
The Slovak Paradise is a mountainous National Park to the east of the Low Tatra Mountains. Rather surprisingly it doesn’t appear in the list of the 12 best things to do in Slovakia when you Google what to do in the country; this generally lists the cities and towns to visit. But what this means, […]
21 July 2018
Today we decided that we’d have a sort of half day of cycling and get to a place called Martin, just the other side of the Mala Fatra mountains. We planned to have a look around the town, which is the centre of Slovakian folk culture and visit the museum there that we thought looked […]
15 July 2018
The 30km between Vienna and Bratislava is, in fact, about 50km in a straight line and as the bike path goes 84km! So, it turned out to be a full cycling day….we must remember to look at our route in more detail going forward! Usually it is getting into a city that is difficult on a […]
9 July 2018
Suddenly the road quality was great and there was a familiarity about the place, ah yes, we must have crossed into Austria! With that move we also feel that we have lost a certain amount of our adventurousness and made a bit of a backwards step from the unknowns of Poland and the Czech Republic. […]
6 July 2018
Here is our round up of Czech Republic observations. Now we have only been here 12 days in total, so we can’t say that it is particularly well-informed. However, we have been through the central part of the Republic and not to the capital, so perhaps this is a better slice of what could be […]
29 June 2018
Our climb up the final hill had taken us into the base of the low clouds, so we couldn’t really see much when we arrived in the small village of Ruda. It looked much like the many other small villages that we have passed through over the past few days. As it turn out however, […]