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(Slovakia 11: Around Košice)

Posted on 17 April 202227 April 2022 by Rob Ainsley

An easy day of exploring Košice by bike, rounded off with a beer specially brewed for cyclists. No wonder Czech and Slovak brewers are often said to be the world’s best. I rode south from the city centre along the riverbank cycle path. It’s part of EV11, a 6,500km-long monster ‘Eurovelo’ route that links northern…

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(Slovakia 10: Prešov to Košice)

Posted on 16 April 202229 April 2022 by Rob Ainsley

In brackets, as this is a side-trip to Slovakia’s lovely second city. I’ll sit out Easter in a place big enough for some restaurants and bars to be open, and I’ll resume the main ride from Prešov on Monday. It would be a terrible waste to come to Slovakia, one of the world’s great places…

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Slovakia 9: Spišská Nová Ves to Prešov

Posted on 15 April 202229 April 2022 by Rob Ainsley

Yesterday was a day off the bike: a day of admin, laundry, sightseeing by bus (the historic walled town of Levoča), and drinking green beer. (Evidently a special, brewed for Easter, maybe? I tried to imagine hints of apple, gooseberry, mint, kale, bayleaf or new-mown grass, but it just tasted of beer.) So I was…

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Slovakia 7: Štrba to Spišská Nová Ves

Posted on 13 April 202229 April 2022 by Rob Ainsley

A beautiful, windless spring day of cloudless skies, snowy mountains – and scary steel ladders. Because, in the middle of more delightful cycling, I did a remarkable metalwork-assisted gorge walk in Slovenský Raj National Park. A bit intimidating, but obviously I never thought of turning back. Largely because you can’t – it’s one way only….

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Slovakia 6: Ružomberok to Štrba

Posted on 12 April 202227 April 2022 by Rob Ainsley

A glorious day of windless sunshine, blue skies, and the snowy peaks of the High Tatras as backdrop. I was lucky, and just to prove it, I even saw a sign for it. (It’s pronounced more like ‘looch-key’.) I scooted out early on quiet country lanes from my rural guesthouse and bought provisions from one…

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Slovakia 5: Žilina to Ružomberok

Posted on 11 April 202229 April 2022 by Rob Ainsley

After all those browns and greys of my old Soviet hotel, the cobalt blue sky of the morning came as a relief. I wondered why the back road, suggested as a quiet way out of town by my phone’s basic mapping app, was so busy. The answer soon appeared, a stark grey building in the…

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Slovakia 4: Trenčín to Žilina

Posted on 10 April 202227 April 2022 by Rob Ainsley

Is there a guidebook to Slovakian bus shelters? If not, I could write one – I seemed to spend much of my time today inside them, dodging sudden flurries of rain, sleet or snow. It was a long and sometimes humdrum day with a fair bit of tedious road riding along ‘Cycle Route 002’, which…

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Slovakia 3: Trnava to Trenčín

Posted on 9 April 202227 April 2022 by Rob Ainsley

Sometimes, even though you’re going round in circles, you still have a constant headwind. Getting out of Trnava on this blustery, drizzly morning wasn’t fun. The road northwest to Piešťany goes through flat, empty, humdrum farmland. No reason to get the camera out, and anyway it might have blown away. But a savoury croissant and…

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Slovakia 2: Malacky to Trnava

Posted on 8 April 202227 April 2022 by Rob Ainsley

An easy, pleasant day across largely flat rural landscapes to Trnava, the ‘Slovak Rome’ (because of its churches, not pasta restaurants). It was a succession of characteristic Slovakian views: green woods; farms; quiet villages; cement factories. And Tescos. I left Malacky through the deserted parkland round the currently unoccupied Pálffy Mansion, former seat of the…

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Slovakia 1: Záhorská Ves to Malacky

Posted on 7 April 202227 April 2022 by Rob Ainsley

After a bleary night of interrupted dozes on the long train from Amsterdam to Vienna, and a local morning train from Vienna to the village of Angern an der March, it was time to start cycling at last. Angern sits on the March/Morava river, the border between Austria and Slovakia. This was the old Iron…

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