Misguided Misfits in Miskolc and Other Places

It's been another busy couple of weeks, including a trip to Adelaide to attend the Writers' Festival (as an audience member) which I will write about later. When I returned from that I only had to re-pack my (unworn) clean clothes for a weekend up in the Hunter Valley of NSW. That's best known as …

A Tatra Mountain Loop: Štrbské Pleso & Štrba

Yesterday's adventure got us to a height of 2190 metres, and you can see from the photos on that post that the mountains around us were rocky and craggy at that height. Today we headed in the opposite direction on the electric railway, aiming for a place called Strbske Pleso.  We wanted to take the …

Big Wheels Keep on Turning: Tatra Cable Car Adventure

We dodged a bullet today. Or more to the point, if we had proceeded with what we had planned to do - we might well have felt like shooting ourselves. It went like this. Jay had been out for an exploration walk the evening before, so we followed her advice and turned down a lonely-looking …