Wonderful, wonderful Slovakia

Well, well. Here we are in the most beautiful place we've ever been to in our lives. We've spent the past week in the sublime natural beauty that is the Mala Fatra national park. Waterfalls, moutains, deer, bears, all crazy types of flying things, valleys!!! This is surely paradise on earth! As the literature says a Free Time Zone!!!

This week alone we've climbed 3 mountains bigger than Snowdon, and have been whizzing about on our new bikes! I've got a red one!!!! And Jim's is blue!!!!

Slovakia is a funny place, there are no old buildings becuase they just wait for their houses to get old, then build a new one in the back garden and knock down the first! They are all beautiful wooden houses we've been getting lots of ideas}, and the are such keen gardens, I've never seen lawns so green, flower beds so in bloom, or vegetable patches so tended! It's also not uncommon to see people working their land by hand, farmers and their wifes stooped over and tending to beds of green stuff, even hand crop spraying - amazing! People can be nice here, but there is a tendancy to look very stern and gruff!

P.s. we've put pictures on the other entries too!!

Brno and tons of beer!

We had a swell time in Brno, yes another city, yes walking around in the heat...but oh my god!

We found a little beer festival with funny bands. There was the covers band singing in English, then the blues Cezch band with my mate from college Michael Thomas playing Bass in a way I've never seen bass played before. This guy rocked, jumping around for all his worth like he was a Nebworth!

We got drunker and drunker and couldn't really understand why until we looked at the percentage of the beer we were drinking which was 12!!!!!!!!!!!! And at only 30p!!!!!!!

We meet a lovely Czech guy who smoked a pipe and told us all about his crazy mother. We had only just missed seeing the Minister of Health heartily smoking and drinking!

Czeching in from Czech

Hello, hello

First thing there are no explanation marks so ... is a few and the z are y...

Sorrz for not writing sooner but there was no java--- so couldn§t get it done...

We are in Cyech at the moment and it is so beautiful. The views are amaying and the flora and fauna is just too much. We have seen kingfishers, eagles, buyyards, stouts, swallows, koi, deer... The list goes on, its as if time has stood still here and just let nature get on with its own thing = which it kindof has with the ole communism thing, although not good for roads etc, great for forests and meadows...

We stayed at a ace campsite with a pond full of croaking fors, I§ve never heard anything like it. I know can see where Paul MacCartnez got the idea from...

The smaller places are the nicest and the waiteresses smile more. We went to Ceskz Krumlove, which is stunning but there are tourists coming out of the walls there so we made a hastz exit.... Plůs no opera, boo hoo...

We made a quick drive though Germanz to get here and accidentlz drove alongside the Rhine for quite a waz, what a magnificent river... We were stunned...

Freddie trauma continues to haunt us though. Ahh, after spending 400 euros on a wheel bearing the mysterious bump continued, then we were told it was the back wheels so we replaced them for 150 pounds and still the bump continues...so all we can do is keep on driving, nobody speaks english and what we need to explain is soooo complex... so fingers cross another wheel does not come flzing by....we§ve checked them all so should be ok.

There have been fantastic storms here, as I hear zou have had there. Very scarz when zou are inside something with a plastic roof, the noise is deafening.

There is a fantastic singing fountain in Marianske Lazne - it's got lots of different patterns and every odd hour it booms classical music and the patterns go along with the song, its beautiful and hillarious at the same time. Puts Nottingham's shitty little fountain to shame!! Check out the pics

Out tonight in Brno to let our hair down and have a boogie, then off to the much anticipated Slovakia for some fun in the mountains...