Fri 20.Aug.2010
Košice, Slovakia
I think this is my first post in these wanderings from someplace that
starts with a K.
A view from my window at the dawn's early light.
The wi-fi enabled cafe around the
corner in the afternoon.
Friendly, but with a drawback for my purposes. Whoever set up
their wi-fi router left it with the manufacturer's default
network name. Somebody else nearby did the same. When the nearbybodies
turn on their router, I lose my connection in the confusion. So I
depend more on the caffe on the square where I am now.
For the record, not all of Slovakia is beautiful renaisance squares and
such. The cheap parts of town are often pretty homely, though the high
rises are usually painted and sometimes washed.
These walls are on my walk into the town center.
The tall text says A PLACE FOR YOUR AD.
Europe's Easternmost Gothic Cathedral
Who'da thunk Europe had an easternmost gothic cathedral. My
guideboook says this is it: St Elizabeth's in Košice. I forget
how to spell it in Slovak.
For a fee, you can climb an incredibly narrow spiral stone stair up
that domed tower. It'll make you appreciate Albus Dumbledore's spiral
stone escalator, I have no doubt.
Detail of a small column on the cathedral.
Sunset at a plague column on a
northward extension of the town square. I can see it from the door of
the caffe where I am sitting at this very moment.
The
Musical Fountain
The most successful of its kind I have seen. Complex, dancing,
spacious. Kids love it and grown-ups enjoy sitting around it watching
the kids or just mellowing out.
This picture from a cloudy moment is just a place holder. I got some
better-lighted ones today that will go into the next (or soon) post.
More exuberant than its counterpart in Poprad, looser and less pompous
than the musical fountain in Marienbad. This one got it
right.
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