Category: Slovakia
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Doris, we miss you!
One of the main reasons we traveled to Slovakia was to take care of Doris the dog, an energetic, intermittently naughty but often charming 6-month old Hungarian Vizsla who chewed everything from stuffed toys to socks and underwear or your arm in a playful kind of way. Her owner Martin had to go to Denver…
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30 years ago, in Nitra – back in time
In September 1992, exactly 30 years ago , a young woman named Miss Christine Minett arrived at the dark bus station in Nitra, Czechoslovakia. She spoke no Slovak. There was a single pay phone under a dim light, with which she hopefully dialed the number scrawled on a piece of paper. She got a person…
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Please, Thank You, I’m sorry, and other things to learn in Slovak
Chris has been in England for about a week now, with me staying here at Martin’s house in Ivanka to take care of Doris. For clarification, Ivanka is a suburb of Bratislava, with the full name of Ivanka pri Dunaji (Ivanka near the Danube). In the US, Ivanka is a name that is loaded with…
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On the road again – to Budapest!
Chris has various playlists that she plays through a speaker on her handlebars while we ride. One of the standard tunes on those playlists is “On the Road Again“ by Willie Nelson. For a long time, that song has played in my head as I’ve pedaled various places around the globe. It’s a song celebrating…
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A mixed bag: a car accident, 3 Ukrainians, 2 guests, a dog named Doris and Google Translate
After five days of not keeping up with the blog, it’s hard to know where to start. I guess I’ll start by recounting our car accident driving Martin’s car the day after Martin left, four days ago. Most importantly, no one was hurt, and secondly, it wasn’t our fault. We were slowing down for a…
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After England…back to Slovakia and Doris
We stayed three days in Guildford, hiking 20 miles over a couple days through the countryside. One day we took a bus to Shere, which was on tiny roads just a few miles away. A lovely jumping off point for a 10-mile hike back to Cranleigh where we were staying. We enjoyed staying in our…
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Jet-setting to Paris, Liverpool & London
After months of living on the road with bikes as our sole mode of transport and wearing the same clothes every day, we are off to Paris to visit our friend Héloïse, followed by short jaunts to Liverpool and London before jetting back to Bratislava. So as to not embarrass ourselves (and our friends) in…
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Last push to Bratislava! WE DID IT!
We had made plans to take a train to Bratislava in the case of bad weather, but when we woke the skies were cloudy but there was no rain and the forecast was good enough that we decided to finish what we started! On two wheels! There was a steady tail wind for the majority…