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Hello Honey Berry!

Honestly speaking, I don’t clearly remember how this all happened, of course really fast, but suddenly we were looking for a dog. Yes, mainly it was Miska, who was looking, but I, as a natural dog lover, would anyhow agree and be happy for any dog to welcome.

Sooner or later… and here I remember, that it was rather fast – meaning sooner (straight off the LIDO festival) we were heading to a village south of Levice, to see the available puppies. And there she was!!! Born on 20th of April, the biggest puppy of the birth! …For sure the cutest poodle puppy and for sure much more lively (which we wanted btw) as one could have expected.

So, obviously the decision was made at the very first moment, we saw her. And yet we needed to leave the puppy with the owners. Being too young, she needed to undergo few procedures.

But in 3 weeks’ time, we managed to get some equipment and she had her procedures plus passport ready. Therefore, we are very happy to announce that starting on 8th of July 2023 we have a little newcomer in our family, so Haw! Haw! please welcome Honey Berry! Haw!  

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Simi & Emi

For the second weekend of February, we were honoured by the wedding invitation from Simi and Emi. This lovely couple are especially very good friends of Miska, back from the University days as well as our true friends in Graz 😊

The winter wedding theme perfectly fitted to the atmosphere of its location. Nicely renovated baroque Halic castle (situated near Lucenec – south of Slovakia) provided charming fairy-taleish premises with an 18th century feeling and a bit of nobles included.

Luckily we were on time for the official ceremony, which took place in the near by church. There we listened to extensive interesting information about the real values of life from a priest, friend of Simi and Emi. At least I think, we will all remember the precious value of the salt 😊 After the ceremony, dinner was served and the celebration lightly begun. By an hour or so, when a music band hit the stage, the dance floor become fully occupied. And so it lasted until very late with Dj taking the party under control.

Dears, thank you for the invitation, we enjoyed your Day a lot! 😍

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The Day – D

On 30th of July the big dream came true. It’s been 10 years since we are together and so we were looking forward to our wedding a lot.

In between us, it is indeed a very special – once in the lifetime occasion, but on the other hand, also a great celebration party with the whole family our friends, all the bellowed ones.

The preparations were not so easy as we tried to organise as much as possible remotely from Austria. But at least we did not feel the stress, which everyone suggested will be increasingly bearing on us with wedding approaching.  Instead, we were excited and looking forward for the celebration.

Although the final week, back in the hometown already, was a bit harsh, we were lucky to meet some extremely nice people helping us achieving our goal. Therefore, we are greatly thankful especially to Mrs. Vera, Mrs. Polozaniova, Mrs. Tothova, also to Mrs. Kabat, our band and dj and all the others making our wedding so perfect.

Last but not least, as the reaction given next day were more than positive, we feel very satisfied, knowing everyone enjoyed our wedding us much as we two did. Thank you everyone for coming! 😊

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Táborisko, Počúvadlianské jazero

This time – “One time” – and no next time – in slovak.

Dobre bolo.

Senko chytil kovid, Andy tiež. Eči si zlomil kľúčnu kosť a čakal na operáciu.

Tomino staval “kadáfiho” vo štvrtok sám. V piatok nás bolo päť. Unavení, vyšťavení a zničení. Tešili sme sa na super počko a … na to naše Počko.

V sobotu bola zima, ale večer sme spravili skvelú párty. Všetkým sa páčila. V nedeľu ráno to bolo horšie. Večer čisté kino.

Šli sme ďalej, ďalej aj pôjdeme. Pondelok je vždy náročný. Dobre bolo. S priateľmi, vždy dobre je.

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Stiavnicky Kros Triatlon 2021

Well, it took the obligatory 3 attempts to finally participate in a sport event. Although I was not in a good shape and the biking section was questionable, the desire to take part in was strong.

As the beginning of race on 31st of July was shifted a bit due to bad weather, we had a chance to fill in the biker vacancy. Quite swiftly we met Ondrej, an enthusiastic PT teacher, who agreed to compete with us. Even quicker we got the need equipment for him.

The race started with a swimming part of 1km in Kolpassky Tajch, which Lenka has finished superbly.  Afterwards Ondrej took his 2 rounds of 25km cycling. Unfortunately, as he slipped and fell down on a muddy road in the 2nd round, our promising 10th place actualized to 14th position before running.

With my abilities, I had not much more options, than to try to catch and over-run the closest opponent on that 8km run. And that’s also how it finished; 13th place out of 17 participating relay teams. Not bad at all!   

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Tatliakova chata and Liptov

Asked by friends to join them hiking in Tatras, there’s no other than positive answer. Although the weather forecast looked dangerous, based on the advice of some more experienced, we got ready early morning on Thursday the 24th of June.

Starting at Ziarska dolina we soon reached Ziarska chata, where a decision had to be taken.  A group of 5, let’s say those having more energy to burn, went for the “chain track” above Banikov (2178 m) and Tri Kopy towards Smutne sedlo. The rest of us, we 2 and Tomas – who can enjoy the mountains also in relaxed way – went directly to Smutne sedlo. Continuing to Tatliakova chata, we stop by wonderful Rohacske pleso for some prohibited bathing 😊. The next day, on the way back, we decided to split again on Smutne sedlo. A half of us went to reach Placlivo (2125 m), while the rest took a straight downhill track.  Afterwards during the evening, we degusted some tasty barbeque .. and yes.. also party a bit 😉 So the other day – on Saturday, we just managed sunbathing on Liptovska Mara. Finally for Sunday we took  a recommended easy track from Demanovska jaskyna to Krakova Hola (1752 m) with lots of bear prints back to Lucky.

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Cesta Hrdinov SNP

Stretching all the way from North-East to very West – almost through the whole country – the most important touristic route’s name stands for “Trail of the Slovak National Uprising Heroes”.

In regard to its length (approx. 760 km), one can obviously choose a part of it for hiking and not necessarily walk out for weeks. Tomas has done all the planning superbly.

Our journey begun in Donovaly and continued through the crest of Low Tatras towards Chopok. Oversleeping the first night in “Hiadelske sedlo” we changed the plan a little bit, so the shelter at “Durkova” was luckily switched by the last room in Magurka (the highest situated settlement in Slovakia). Although Chopok was not far away the next day, those cold weather conditions obstructed the way badly. Even a group of chammies watched us surprisingly coming that late in heavy fog.  We honestly deserved some comfy sleep at the premises of “Kamenná Chata”. For the last – 4th day there was just an easy downhill track to Certovica on the plan. However coming down limping with some bloody blisters, we had absolutely enough. Better results are promised next time!

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Rackova Dolina Camping

Fascinated by the nature, camping is a very good way how to take pleasure of it. During the pandemic period and all the restrictions, one had a brilliant idea to try out camping site in Rackova Dolina, Slovakia.

Situated  just below the West Tatras in the area belonging to Pribylina, it is a perfect place to start all the various hiking and biking tracks. Just to be sure we survive our first camping experience, we decided to book a room in a kind of boarding – house there. It worked out well. All day long we were out for hiking. Later in the evening sitting by friend’s tents round the fireplace until late night. Then took some comfy sleeping inside 🙂

Although we did not accomplished our desired tour to Baranec peak, due to bit colder and worst conditions as expected, we truly fall for this camping by the mountains style.

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Kiss Wedding in Krasnany

The big day “D” for our friends Tomas and Lenka, that’s 23rd of June 2018. Wedding, by its nature is supposed to be a special event. When it takes place in a romantic castle of Krasnany, surrounded by a great garden and lasts for 2 days, then it definitely is a special one. Dear Kiss Family, thank you very much for the invitation, we enjoyed your celebration a lot!