Czech and Slovakia

The following day was even more overcast so we never did do the funicular railway in Zakopane. However, we went for a stroll round the town looking for a suitable place for coffee and cakes and ended up climbing right up out of town and on to the entrance to the Tatry National Park! As there seemed to be lots of people going in and coming out we thought it might be worth a look, so we paid our zlotys and set off up a forest track. The weather went from overcast to raining to hail and then to a thunder storm and still we walked! Eventually we found a lot of Polish people sheltering at a log cabin restaurant serving soup etc. About 10 minutes further on took us to a waterfall, which was the place everyone seemed to be heading for. On the way down we stopped for soup and the sun came out, but only briefly.
The following day there was excitement on our campsite as there was fresh snow visible on the mountains! We left Zakopane and took the Liberator up through the Tatra mountains and into Slovakia. There were some spectacular views from the roadside of the snow capped mountains.




We spent three nights at a site near to the town of Levoca which is an almost intact medieval town with a pretty town square and many impressive old buildings.







 

We took a bus trip to Spissky Hrad (Castle) about 15km away, the largest medieval castle in Slovakia or even Europe depending which guide book you read!

Later in the adjacent town whilst waiting for the bus Edith was excited to find her own dress shop!

Yesterday we drove on again out of Slovakia and into the Czech Republic and the small town of Roznov. The weather was not good, with rain most of the way, and although we had some pleasant warm sunshine this morning, the heavens have just opened as I have been typing this and a heavy thunder shower is now in progress! This town's claim to fame is an open air folk museum which we thought sounded worth a visit but is beginning to seem less attractive by the minute!!