Still. Still achieving? Achieving stillness? Is being still even an achievement when it’s forced upon you? For five months and more we haven’t spent longer than three nights in the same place. Until now. Now. We’ve been in the Poprad area of Slovakia for the best part of a month. If we could separate the […]
Slovakia
A shaggy dog’s story. The word from Polly.
Holy puppies. There are some long faces around me. It’s as if I was already dead! Having said that – I do feel like death pretty much every day, but it won’t get me down. How did we get here in the first place? Fortunately I wrote most of this ages ago when I was […]
Slovakian cliffhangers, at the vets and in the gorge.
An extended stay in Slovakia. The dog’s need for treatment will keep us in Slovakia a week longer than we had planned, but when we’re not worried about her we’re making a thoroughly good time of it. Rain is forecast frequently here, but it doesn’t always fall. Saturday morning’s expected downfall turned out to be […]
The Grand Hotel Praha – welcome to Slovakia.
Bring me interesting borders – I love them. Poland’s main ski resort of Zakopane in the High Tatras has some fabulous wooden villas, quite unlike anything we’ve seen elsewhere in Poland. Sadly many have fallen into disrepair, and become crowded in as new hotels are built in the gardens of once grand residences. The town […]