Category Archives: Cool buildings/castles

The Dead Bats’ Cave

Posted on August 8, 2015 by lwaterson

High in the broccoli-hued forest foothills of the Nizke Tatry (Low Tatras) – Slovakia’s great unsung mountain range – hidden between the lofty pine trees of the lower slopes and the element-stunted trees of the kosodrevina above, there is a … Continue reading →

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The Štefánikova Magistrála Stage One: Devín to Kamzík

Posted on August 1, 2015 by lwaterson

This first stage of the four-stage hike across Western Slovakia between Hrad Devín (Devín Castle) and Bradlo is an easy initiation into the walk. We’ve allowed more time for this because of the points of interest en route and because the … Continue reading →

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The Štefánikova Magistrála (Štefánik’s Trail)

Posted on July 20, 2015 by lwaterson

When I heard there was a path themed around one of Slovakia’s greatest all-time heroes, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, running from the Austrian border at Hrad Devín through the entirety of the Small Carpathians to Bradlo, where the man is buried, my … Continue reading →

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The Unsung Charms of Košice – A Perspective on Slovakia’s Second City

Posted on June 29, 2015 by lwaterson

This week’s post comes courtesy of Karen McCann, author of Adventures of a Railway Nomad: How Our Journeys Guide Us Home, which within weeks of publication became the number one best-selling travel book on Amazon. Karen recently spent three months on trains, … Continue reading →

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Days of Wine and Horses… Château Topolčianky

Posted on May 5, 2015 by lwaterson

First, you have to imagine what a month or more of snow on the ground is like – easy enough for you Central and far-North Europeans but for the rest of us (me included until this January-February), not so easy. … Continue reading →

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In the Valley of the Upper Nitra: A Little Local Insight into Prievidza & Bojnice

Posted on April 30, 2015 by lwaterson

We’re extremely grateful to fellow Czech- and Slovak-ophile, novelist James Silvester for writing this article for us on the delights of the little-visited town of Prievidza and nearby Bojnice, crowned by its majestic chateau. It almost seems unfair to the Central-Western … Continue reading →

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Bratislava Castle Restaurant

Posted on March 25, 2015 by lwaterson

Slovak cuisine tastebud-tickling time. And this, primarily, for a friend who is Bratislava-bound soon after a lengthy time away, and has been asking me about classic places to eat really good Slovak food in Bratislava Old Town. On first examination, … Continue reading →

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Slovakia’s Wooden Churches: Four of the Easiest to Visit

Posted on March 19, 2015 by lwaterson

On this site, we like to believe we dedicate ourselves 100% to the bizarre, the off-the-beaten-track and the profound where Slovakia is concerned: we wouldn’t want you to be reading on here what you can Google elsewhere, after all. But … Continue reading →

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Bratislava Clock Museum

Posted on March 16, 2015 by lwaterson

Back in the 19th century, it turns out, Bratislava (aka Pressburg to German speakers or Pozsony to Hungarian speakers) was one of Europe’s foremost manufacturers of clocks – and the Hungarian Empire’s go-to destination for purchasing high-quality timepieces. It was … Continue reading →

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Kamzík

Posted on March 7, 2015 by lwaterson

Like the Tower of London, like the Eiffel Tower, the thing that puts you off wanting to go to Kamzík, the big TV tower/mast standing sentinel over the hills above Bratislava is that it is, perhaps, too obvious. There is admittedly not much … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: Cool buildings/castles

The Dead Bats’ Cave

The Štefánikova Magistrála Stage One: Devín to Kamzík

The Štefánikova Magistrála (Štefánik’s Trail)

The Unsung Charms of Košice – A Perspective on Slovakia’s Second City

Days of Wine and Horses… Château Topolčianky

In the Valley of the Upper Nitra: A Little Local Insight into Prievidza & Bojnice

Bratislava Castle Restaurant

Slovakia’s Wooden Churches: Four of the Easiest to Visit

Bratislava Clock Museum

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Kamzík

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