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23 Reviews On my trips to Slovakia I always tried some of the local beers. One of my favourite Slovak beers is the lager of Zlaty Bazant (Golden Pheasant). The brewery was founded in 1967 in Hurbanovo, and is...
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16 Reviews Bratislava Music Celebrations :) sounds stupid but in Slovak it is Bratislavske hudobne slavnosti and it is worth to see. There are many great musicians and good music every year in the end of...
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13 Reviews Hi, since I came here I noticed people from abroad like me may actually get confused by the Slovak language cause they say "Ano" to say Yes and "Nie" to say No. So sometimes they are replying to you...
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A natural progression from teaching me about singing and dancing in the Traditional Slovak way, was to show me the Traditional Slovak fashions! One of the most fascinating aspects for me was to learn that each village had it's very own songs and style of tradional clothing. These clothes are worn on special holidays and keeping tradition alive is an important part of their lives!
Yes (No) Ano (Nie)Good morning Dobre ranoGood day Dobry denGood evening Dobry vecerGood night Dobru nocHello (Hi) Ahoj (Cau)Goodbye Do videniaNice to meet you Tesi maThankyou DakujemExcuse me PrepacteWhere is ....... Kde je ......?
During looking around Slovakia, I learnt some useful Slovak words and phrases. Some words are inappropriate for posting here, but I don’t forget such words rather than real useful words :) Anyway, I’ll show you some of them which are useful for your travel in Slovakia.1. Words and phrases which you may be able to look up in phrasebooksDobry den! : Hello!Ahoj : Hi! (almost same as “Dobry den”, but more informal)Dakujem! : Thank you!Prosim : You are welcome.Dovidenia! : Good bye! (Many people just says “Dovi”)Dobre! : Good!Na Zdravie! : Cheers!Ako sa mate? : How are you?2. Words which it may be hard to look up in phrasebooksPohoda : Feel goodPopici : Bad, TerribleKonopa : MarihuanaYou can also use “Na zdravie” like “Bless you” when someone sneezed. If someone said to you “Na zdravie” after your sneezing, just say her/him “Dakujem”.
But despite these achievements, his importance in the Slovak, respectively Czechoslovak history lies elsewhere. Štefanik as a soldier, later even general of the French Army was decorated with state prize – Order of the honour legion and gained many good contacts in high places. He mediated a meeting between T.G.M. and French PM Aristide Briand. This meeting is considered to be beginning of fight for establishing the CSR.From this time supreme organization of the Czechoslovak foreign resistance movement – the Czechoslovak National Council began its work. Its main aim on the field of diplomacy was to initiate connections with western governments and in military sphere to build foreign legions in U.S.A., Russia, France and Italy made up of Czech and Slovak volunteers. In this case Štefanik played the most important role.After war and establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic new state had...
Milan Rastislav Štefánik was born in Košariská. He came from a patriot family with conscious national efforts. He studied in Bratislava, later in Prague and finally he applied to the Faculty of Arts at Charles University where he graduated with a doctorate from philosophy. Besides studying, Štefanik also put his energy into club activities. He was a member, and chairman of the Slovak student club Detvan in Prague , which propagated Slovak culture, poetry and folk songs. In Prague he entered its intellectual society and also met among others Tomáš. G. Masaryk. Štefánik arrived in 1904 to Paris with just a few things in his suitcase and a recommendation from his Prague professor and he was accepted as assistant in Jansen´s observatory.His first excellent act in his new job was ascent from the town of Chamonix to the highest European peak – Mont Blanc. The main purpose was to observe sun...
"Socialism with a human face", well.. this great man of act was a leader of Communistic party in 1960's and came with an idea to make socialism better according to wish of more freedom and human rights. However, we all know how it ended up... by occupation of Czecho-Slovakia in 1968 by Soviet troops. What is really weird that till now there is no culprit to judge this act because the invitation to come came from the country itself. But we should pay attention to Alexander Dubcek. After the bloody years 1968-69 he has been the president of Federal Council and later Ambassador in Turkey but then around year 1970 came a stream called Normalisation so he was pushed up to the isolation and he has lived ordinary life in Bratislava guarded by STB (organisation like KGB in USSR) till the Velvet revolution in 1989 when he was back on political scene. For me as a generation of chidlren who was...
Well, at least the most interesting thing in every country is cuisine. If you are person who are searching for local dishes and not fast food like pizza ;) or hamburger then definitely try this delicious dish. It is made of potatoe dough stuffed with a special kind of cheese called bryndza, boiled and then poured by fried bacon...Very yummy and tasty :) The best served (or the best Ihave ever eaten) in Strbske pleso Slovak restaurant but I recommend also restaurants in Tatranska Lomnica ...places are situated in High Tatras :)
Christmas cookies are made of more types of the doughs but this one is basic. :) Originally it becomes from Linz but it is very popular here in Slovakiaand there are families that bake more than 8 types of them for Christmas.2 a 1/3 of wheat flour, 1 pack of butter (250 g), 3/4 pot of powder sugar, 3 yolks, 1 pack of vanilla sugar, lemon juice and crumbled Simply everything put to the bowl and make a smooth dough. Then put it to the plastic bag and let it for 1-2 hours in the fridge to get the best consistency. Then roll it to the cca 3 mm thin and use sharp forms such as stars, hearts, circles etc .. Bake on paper or fatty plate around 5 min till the cookies get lightbrown color. Stick them together with great homemade marmalade, decorate by vanilla sugar or chocolate or by wallnuts etc it depends on taste. The best marmalade is of strawberries, blackberries, raspberries etc..Bon...
Excuse me, it's rather quite new traveler's custom than Slovak local custom tip. I noticed that more and more visitors come to Slovak Republic (and other post-communist countries) to look for their ancestors, especially since communism collapse (in 1990) which made travelling around much easier and safe. They come especially from the USA/Canada where many people of Slovak (approx. 2.5 mln in the USA) origin live.If you are looking for your Slovak (or Czech) ancestors look at Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet It's very huge list of weblinks - real treasure for everyone looking for the information on the subject mentioned above.
I noticed that most houses in Slovakia countryside including village of Parnica were fenced by wooden, unpainted or painted in dark colors, fences, at least in front. A lot of the fences looked very old or maybe they were a little neglected. Additionally they usually didn't cut grass in their frontyards or did it, say, once a year. Wooden materials are less and less used to build houses (expensive) but natives still used to build wooden fences.
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Q: I have to make a bank payment to SLovakia (to buy some coupons from the excellent outdoor adventure company 'Mutton', based in...
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