Friday 30th July

 



30th July day 27-


After a modest we in another delightful breakfast. We strolled to the station and successfully received our bonn seat (and were glad we did as it's rather busy) I bought some postcards and some lunch, booked out Warsaw and Prague hostels (we've realised were too close to start minicing ahead). And currently were in a very clean and fast train to the capital sharing about the lack of leg room and there a no comfortable way of sleeping comparedto the older slower trains (hey did give us free apple juice and honey/pleasant butter whilst with no trains brinked on the warder. Cool! I've decided krakow isn't so bad - probably better to live! there than on un holiday but nevertheless worth doing (even if just for Auschwitz)


Slovakian Summary


landscape - big hills, nice lakes, log cabins, fishing (a Small Canada apparently)


food - cant comment, except for ice careful when choosing spreads


around - cheap beer, quite nice


People - helpful & train stations.


A laid back country with a surprising commercial offer


We were literally swept up the train by people in golden shirts & deposited at the not-so-bad-as the suggest 'student accommodation' hostetries.


We then walked (the wrong way) to find a Supermarket and to having got evenly excited about cooking, decided to buy ingredients for a white sauce. Perhaps a little bit over - confident, thinking that the crime gauche was going to be our only food-related language issue - we managed to end up with Semolina and yoghurt, rather than flour and milk - trying to reassure ourselves it was not going to live ploughed ahead regardless, and interestingly enough ended up with a sauce that tasted of the nicest cheese. We've had worse scones (...)


So pointless interest white-wine, semolina yoghurt and butter = cheese sauce

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