I am digging on Slovakia big time! We decided to get out of Poland while we were ahead (ok, not actually ahead as the score felt like: Poland 72- The Seymours 1)
Slovakia has been great so far. We are in a pretty nondescript town called Poprad, but we scored a great room in a private home where we have access to a kitchen- yippee! And it is in a nice neighborhood, and we have a Slovak heavy metal garage band practing next door! They stop practice before bed time, but Michael thinks they only have one song, but we don’t mind as they are pretty good.
Today we went on an awesome hike in the Slovak side of the High Tatra Mountain range- really nice and not crowded at all and we saw some really pretty mushrooms (see Flickr for pics).
Now we are chilling in our room (has a big table and couch type thing) and I am drinking some Slovak wine and about to read the International Herald Tribune from yesterday. I have not liked being totally out of touch with what is going on in the world.
P.S. Bad news on the mullet front, it seems not popular at all in Slovakia (I even got to see our garage band neighbors and not a one was sporting one). But I have some good news. I saw a 30-something woman on the train today wearing a Banana Clip!
Hungary is the next stop. We leave for Hungary tomorrow. We cut a day out of hungary to add to slovakia, we are really close to Hungary right now (100 km or so).
We are skipping the castle, as we decided to hit Slovakian Paradies (Slovensky Raj)
Michael and Ashley
Sweet! If you have a chance, check out Oravsky Hrad (Orava Castle). It was exceedingly bad ass!
Slovakia sounds great, but we thought you were going to be in Hungary…what's the next stop?
Love, Mom and Ervin
Thanks for the news and pics from Slovakia. We check your Blog every day…Wish we were with you.
Love
Mom and Dad