Train Across the Plain
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Two thirds of the Slovakian rail network is single-track lines, so average
speeds are not greased lightning. Still, I enjoyed a couple of hours
boogeying across the great hungarian plains. Looks like pictures
of Kansas. (Hungarian? Hungary lost this slice of land as booty to the
victors in the first WW.)
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Not all Slovakian Rail rolling stock is as aged or as colorful as this
waggon I saw parked in one of the prairie town stops.
The last hour and a half of the journey, we leave the plains and head
north up the Hron river valley into the central mountains.
These are not craggy jaggy mountains like the Alps - that comes further
north in the High Tatrys.
The Heart of the Town
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My first order of business on checking into my room here was a nap. So
I didn't get out to explore until late in the day. Shadows had already
eaten up a lot of otherwise nice pictures, but goodness, it is a pretty
place.
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The Orthodox monk brothers Cyril and Methodius invented the cyrillic alphabet
in order to translate the bible into slavic languages. Orthodox slavic countries still use their alphabet.
It is just a bit curious to find them here so prominently in deeply Catholic Slovakia.
If anybody knows the story, please direct me toward it.
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