Chata M.R.Štefánika: a chalet in the Low Tatra mountains
Nestled in the side of the hill under Ďumbier, the highest mountain in the Low Tatra (Nizke Tatry) mountains, Chata Štefánika is full of charm, comfort, and convenience. Last week we celebrated our...
View ArticleThe “Lazy” of Central Slovakia
Last fall our family went for a weekend to a chata, a cottage, in the middle of Slovakia. It was amazingly gorgeous: rolling hills with swaths of meadows, brilliant fall colours and bell ringing herds....
View ArticleHeľpa Folk Festival: beautiful beautiful textiles
This weekend I was so fortunate as to visit two folk festivals. As I took about a million photos at each one, I’ll divide them into two posts. Heľpa has held a festival for the past 52 years,...
View ArticleChata pod Borišovom: an unknown mountain chalet
Ten steps in, my legs were burning and my lungs were going double time. It was rather steep, and we were only just beginning our hike. I’ve been exercising more regularly, but there is nothing like a...
View ArticleVeľký Choč: the most beautiful view in Slovakia
It all started with an Instagram picture of a cabin in the middle of the forest somewhere in Slovakia. I decided wanted to go there, basically bulldozed my husband into going for our vacation, and we...
View ArticleKôprovský štít and Veľké Hincovo pleso: a jeweled lake in the grandiose High...
As long time readers of my blog will know, I run to the mountains at any chance I get. At the end of August my husband and I were able to get away for a night to the Vysoké Tatry, the High Tatra...
View ArticleKošice Peace Marathon
Earlier this October I was able to travel with my husband to the Košice Peace Marathon, the oldest marathon in Europe. Inspired by the marathon at the 1924 Olympics in Paris, a Košice native returned...
View ArticleWinter Wonder on Čierna Skala
Pretty much every year I complain that it’s not wintery enough where I live. Some years it snows, some years it doesn’t. This year it has snowed and melted, snowed and melted, repeat. Just before the...
View ArticlePlavecký Mikuláš: hiking to Jelenia Hora and Kršlenica
On the other side of the hills from where I live in the Malé Karpaty (Little Carpathians) is Plavecký Mikuláš, surrounded by numerous accessible places to hike. So far, I’ve gone on two short hikes,...
View ArticleTéryho chalet and the valley of the five lakes
Téryho chata is a chalet high in the Slovak High Tatra mountains, perched on the edge of a cliff with views down the long valley. Behind the chalet is a breathtaking valley with five tarn lakes, lorded...
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