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 eggs by Skipka
This time I would like to recommend you the Easter eggs. There are lots of techniques how to decorate them but the typical - and the unique for Slovakia - are eggs decorated by wire. Those on the picture are decorated by myself but in shops you should find pieces that you forget to breath...
well, all depends on the difficulty of patterns but let's take some around 100 Skk (40 Skk around 1 EUR) Leave a Comment Theme: Local Craft
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On the other hand, it is useful as souvenir and most of women will be happy to have some at home.
it depends on size and patterns... Leave a Comment Theme: Local Craft
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 by Skipka
All of them I simply love them :) and never can pick the most beautiful LOL
not that much it is reasonable price... Leave a Comment Theme: Local Craft
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 by Skipka
If you're just for a short stay in some city or towns try to find the shop, usually there should be written KRISTAL :) Leave a Comment Theme: Local Craft
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 dzban by Skipka
All possible range :) depends on your wallet and tastes Leave a Comment
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 duckling by Skipka
not much :) because the material isn't that expensive here Leave a Comment Theme: Local Craft
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 YOUNG CHEESE VENDOR by matcrazy1
I liked this, unavailable in Poland, cheese a lot. It goes well especially with beer :-). I never had any problems with my stomach after eating them!!! It was available in few local groceries as well but produced in registered "food factories" and... somewhat less delicious.
The vendors were usually equipped with a small table or (more modern and younger folks :-) a cooler or they just kept their treasures to sell in hands (inside plastic bags).
Syrove korbaciki.
After some bargaining I paid 50 SKK (= $1.38 = 1.66 euro = 5.28 Polish zloty) for three bags of syrove korbaciki (half a kilogram or one pound or so).
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 MY CAR BY SLOVAK GROCERY
(POTRAVINY) by matcrazy1
If you travel around Slovakia on your own like always me, you can find quite a lot of small groceries located both along highways and in downtowns/centers of cities and towns. But not as many as in Western Europe maybe except areas close to Polish border where there were a lot of groceries put up for customers from Poland.
Slovak groceries looked (in 2003) like, say in early 90' in Poland (beginning of privatisation): they were small with limited but enough choice of food and drinks put often very chaotic on shelves and they were somewhat less colorful than Polish groceries.
WARNING: they close early, earlier than in Poland. Usually they are opened Mon - Fri 8am - 5 pm (or 6 pm). But sometimes they close at 4pm Mon-Fri in the countryside esp. On Sat 8am - 1pm (2pm). On Sunday most of them are closed except areas close to borders (groceries for foreign consumers)!
But - like in Czech - there are groceries signed VECERKA (fewer than in Czech) which stay open longer (till 8-10 pm) even (rarely) overnight, esp. in towns and cities.
SUPERMARKETS
I found few (much fewer than in Poland) food supermarkets in Slovakia. They are located usually in larger cities and in suburbs of smaller ones as well. I found suopermarkets of BILLA (smaller ones) and TESCO (English chain of large food supermarkets) chains. They both offered a lot of discounts, better choice of food and drinks at usually lower prices than small groceries. But they were... less friendly with no local, home-made specialities available.
Syrove korbaciki (smoked, sheep cheese) - more in my local customs.
Beer (Zlaty Bazant = Gold Pheasant), wine (from Zemplin area), spirits (Slovak tokai).
Basic, local food is much cheaper than in Western Europe and usually a little cheaper than in Poland. Imported food (fruits: grapes for example) maybe much more expensive at least before joining EU. Leave a Comment Theme: Food and Drink
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