I have booked Anchorage-Frankfurt and added the Budapest-Frankfurt leg onto the itinerary for only $50 more. In addition it saves a full day of vacation not...
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Vlad Nad
vladnadd
Dec 2, 2005 8:03 pm
Thanks for explaining Jack, As I explained earlier, with the countries I will be visiting, I am restricted to certain makes and models, so the die is cast in...
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Vlad Nad
vladnadd
Dec 2, 2005 8:05 pm
Thanks for the tip Ron! n I will check out the Budapest departure. Vlad amiak27 <rmat@...> wrote: I have booked Anchorage-Frankfurt...
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Tom Flynn
trflynn@...
Dec 2, 2005 8:59 pm
Jack, Haven't been to Berlin yet, need to put it on my list of places to visit...sounds great. I have been around the Dukla pass area, visiting relatives in...
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Tom Flynn
trflynn@...
Dec 2, 2005 9:19 pm
Thanks for the recipe, Martin. One of our relatives in Zemplinska Teplica (about 30 km east of Kosice) made Loks~e for us at their home...we enjoyed them very...
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gergely
gergely@...
Dec 2, 2005 10:39 pm
The drive from Kosice to Budapest is about four hours (150 miles, I think), and pretty pleasant if the sunflower fields are in bloom. And as an added bonus...
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gergely
gergely@...
Dec 2, 2005 10:49 pm
I agree, but you should have heard Chris complaining while she was driving the stickshift back to our hotel in Svidnik on the nights that I got drunk with...
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gergely
gergely@...
Dec 2, 2005 11:14 pm
The militaria around that area is fantastic! There is a German Half Track deserted along the road there that I'd love to take home. If there are any military...
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Martin Votruba
votrubam
Dec 3, 2005 1:44 am
... It was probably Siva brada (Gray Beard), Tom, quite well known in the region. There are several springs with naturally carbonated mineral water there, and...
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Vlad Nad
vladnadd
Dec 3, 2005 4:16 am
roblem on this end, My wife is equally comfortable with a manual transmission, she drives one every day, and whe knows I will be in the Pivo and Slivo while...
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krejc@...
noreenhasior
Dec 3, 2005 9:08 am
Jack, i always drive from Poland to Slovakia through Mnisek Nad Popradom and the sights, if the weather is not overcast, are breathtaking. next time would be...
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krejc@...
noreenhasior
Dec 3, 2005 9:12 am
In a message dated 12/2/05 8:45:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Martin, the picture of the Chapel reminded me of the Crucifixion with the storm clouds...
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raybravo2000
Dec 3, 2005 1:35 pm
I know someone was looking for a soccer jersey, try these people: Slovak-Czech Varieties 718/752-2093 www.slovczechvar.com Colin...
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gergely
gergely@...
Dec 3, 2005 3:08 pm
Noreen, I've only been to the border crossing from the Slovakian side. It drops you down right into Svidnik, quite a ways east of Poprad, nearer to the...
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krejc@...
noreenhasior
Dec 3, 2005 4:33 pm
looking at the map, i see that Svidnik is on or very near to what looks like a main route called 73. Krajna Polana looks like the place near to crossing to...
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sunkat
sunkat@...
Dec 3, 2005 11:13 pm
Wow, I was aware of the border crossing through the Dukla Pass, but I didn't know about the one at Mnisek nad Popradom. My Slovak husband Ondrej & I always...
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krejc@...
noreenhasior
Dec 4, 2005 12:08 am
In a message dated 12/3/05 6:13:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, sunkat@... ... Wow, that is quite a bit west. i had no idea that there were so many border ...
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Vlad Nad
vladnadd
Dec 4, 2005 2:14 am
I seem to have sparked interest in border crossing and where to do it. This is good, for it opens additional ideas for our trip plans. Vlad krejc@......
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e.gernat@...
Dec 4, 2005 3:05 am
... From: We crossed to Poland at the border at Circ this August. North west Slovakia. There is a brand new bridge and the border crossing was pleasant. There...
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gergely
gergely@...
Dec 4, 2005 3:08 am
Hi Kat, Gergely Mountain is in Hungary about 15 or so miles south of the Slovak border on the highway from Kosice to Miskolek heading towards Budapest (south...
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sunkat
sunkat@...
Dec 4, 2005 7:05 pm
I poked around a bit more & found the following. It lists all border crossings with other countries. It also provides specifics: road or railroad crossings,...
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J. Michutka
jmichutka
Dec 4, 2005 7:31 pm
OK, did a little more hunting on the site, here is what appears to be the whole article: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_50/b3963021.htm...
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J. Michutka
jmichutka
Dec 4, 2005 7:31 pm
The Dec 12 issue of Business Week has an article (p. 50ff) on The Rise of Central Europe; evidently it is also the cover story for the European edition of...
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krejc@...
noreenhasior
Dec 5, 2005 10:42 am
Kat, Who would ever think that so many border crossings exist? it got me to wondering how many crossings we have in the United States? i just never thought ...
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krejc@...
noreenhasior
Dec 5, 2005 10:49 am
Julie, I can see why everything is now made in China. Noreen ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Tom Flynn
trflynn@...
Dec 5, 2005 2:44 pm
... Thank You, Martin, It might have been at the spring lower down (closer to the road) that we stopped...I remember being on that same road on a previous...
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Tom Flynn
trflynn@...
Dec 5, 2005 3:29 pm
... I think we also might have passed it (without knowing what it was) when we drove from Budapest to Kosice (not sure of the road number). Has anyone had...
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Helen Fedor
helentrib
Dec 5, 2005 4:47 pm
My family lives near Slanec (my father's family came from Slanske Nove Mesto), in a little village that has a spring (comes out of a pipe in a little cement...
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Martin Votruba
votrubam
Dec 5, 2005 5:02 pm
... Yes, Tom, the mineral spring is quite well known today because it's on the main route between Bratislava and Presov/Kosice, under 10 miles east of Levoca...
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Helen Fedor
helentrib
Dec 5, 2005 7:58 pm
I just got info about this book, which I'm going to order for our collections. It looks fascinating: *ivé kroniky slovenských dejínskryté v názvoch obcí...
