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Englishmaninslovakia Has Relaunched!
News just in: there has been a lot of work behind the scenes of late re-designing the site, and now we have lift-off! Please visit us now at http://www.englishmaninslovakia.co.uk It’s been a great journey with Englishmaninslovakia.com – after all as … Continue reading
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The Dedalus Book of Slovak Literature
I have spoken up before about the absence of Slovak literature translated into English. Ask for it in Bratislava’s English language bookstores and you get strange looks or apologetic shrugs – almost as if, with such a readily available abundance … Continue reading
Penzión Resla pri Klopacke
In Banská Štiavnica, where one can’t walk a pace without another delightful 18th-century edifice looming photogenically into view, it’s not easy to stand out on architectural merits. But sometimes, pretty facades can be just shells – or not live up … Continue reading
The Best of Bratislava’s Antiques
One can rush through Bratislava – see only its ugly outskirts – and come away thinking there is nothing there. Even should one find one’s way to the maze of cobbled Old Town alleys, one can come away not glimpsing … Continue reading
Luke and his Words
Just a heads-up, Englishmaninslovakia devotees! I have been working on setting up a site especially dedicated to my fiction and non-fiction writing, Lukeandhiswords.com: and this is now looking ship-shape. So for Slovakia-related features, continue to follow this site. For updates on … Continue reading
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The Greatest Boutique Hotel in Bratislava
Travel up above the city centre into Koliba, or the neighbourhoods around Slavin, and you enter wealthy Bratislava – where city intellectuals attend piano concerts and abodes are designed by fashionable architects. With its maze of steep leafy streets, this … Continue reading
The Forgotten Bank of the Danube
That last post reminded me of another I meant to write a few months ago. I’d been shopping, as I remember (not at one of the big malls because I detest them) and fancied a stroll near the city centre. … Continue reading
Posted in BRATISLAVA & AROUND, Hikes, Other Outdoorsy Stuff (Skiing etc)
Tagged austria, bratislava, bratislava cycling trail, bratislava danube, bratislava hikes, bratislava parks, bratislava water museum, bungee jumping, danube, danube bratislava, danube bridge, danubiana art museum, lafranconi, most snp, pressburg, stefanikova magistrala, vodarenske muzeum
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Canoeing Down the Morava and Danube into Bratislava
Approach is everything. With Bratislava, you have several means at your disposal. By road from Vienna isn’t bad: after all, out of the flat eastern Austrian farmland rears the forested hills of Devínska Kobyla and the otherworldly Communist-era tower blocks … Continue reading
Posted in BRATISLAVA & AROUND, Getting To/Around Slovakia, Other Outdoorsy Stuff (Skiing etc)
Tagged bratislava, bratislava danube, bratislava hainburg, bratislava hikes, canoeing, communism, communist slovakia, danube, danube boat, danube bratislava, danube bridge, devin bratislava, Devin castle, devinska kobyla, Devinska nova ves, devinske jazero, devinsky hrad, eastern europe, eurovea, hainburg, karloveske rameno, Marianka, morava, nationalpark Donau Auen, pilgrimage trail, vienna bratislava boat, vienna to bratislava
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Chata Pod Čertovicou
8:30am. The only other guest was chuckling to himself. He simply couldn’t believe it. The manager had just given him a bottle of wine (Château Topoľčianky, not bad), well, just because, too often these days there is a reason for … Continue reading
Posted in Accommodation in the Wilderness, Hikes, LOW TATRAS, Other Outdoorsy Stuff (Skiing etc)
Tagged biely karpaty, brezno, certovica, cesta hrdinov snp, chata pod certovicou, chateau topolcianky, donovaly, dukla pass, hotel totem, hrebenovka, low tatras, low tatras mountain houses, Low Tatras Ridge Hike, Mala Fatra, mala fatra national park, skiing, Slovakia skiing, stefanikova magistrala
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Death Watching Over Us… Introducing Elán
Whenever the Prague Old Town square’s Astronomical Clock strikes you’ll see one of the figures coming out to do the chiming is Death (a skeleton). Here’s the premise for one of rock group Elán’s greatest ever hits, smrtka na pražskom … Continue reading
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