Slogfester

After the big climb over the low Tatras we ended up in a one-horse town called Nalepkovo. We eventually found the only available accommodation in town (and the most amusing to date) at the local football stadium which had boarding school style rooms for visiting teams. It was a Sunday afternoon, the local league [...]

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What better way to spend your birthday than eating cake (thanks Jules , bludging around some posh hotel in the mountains (thanks again Jules and catching up with blogs!

Some of you may have noticed that my brief flirt with blogging ground to a halt shortly after meeting Jules in Bratislava. Suffice to [...]

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Okay – I was right to have concerns about the cycling being onerous…..since my last update we have moved into the ‘onerous zone’!! Since going ’round the bend’ we have cycled up what seems to be an inordinate number of hills (my city mates would describe them as mountains!!). I’m by no means ’sporty’ [...]

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Your trusty (or should that be crusty?) correspondent (ably assisted by his new assistant Jules) has been tirelessly travelling the country desperately in search of something other than luke warm weak coffee and tasteless cakes with mountains of artificial cream. Alas, with few exceptions the country has failed Come on Hungary… lift your [...]

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After a great few days exploring Budapest it was time to move on. We had hoped to be able to take a boat from Budapest to Vienna, Mr G fancied a few days aboard a ‘Gin Palace’ holiday cruiser watching the world go by before being delivered into another gorgoeous European city – [...]

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