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!!