Messages posted by : chaletslovakia
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Can anyone really predict a 'bumper season of snow...'? |
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The prices haven't really increased - it's the slumped pound that makes it look like the prices have doubled. When I moved here (2006) the exchange rate was 55Kr for £1. It was amazing. By the time the Euro was introduced (Jan 2009) the exchange rate was approx 31Kr to a £1. So things weren't as cheap, but only because of those shameless banker types.... let's leave that.... So the prices here didn't increase, they just 'became' more expensive to someone visiting with Sterling. Which has of course happened in many places too... |
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...out here where your £8 (the most I've heard of was an €11 pint, in Courchevel) will get you watered for the whole evening....
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No-one's mentioned Muse's live act... pretty hard to beat over the last few years
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the High Tatra resorts of Tatranska Lomnica, Stary Smokovec and Strbske Pleso are about a 2 hr drive from Zakopane (just the other side of the Tatras). They would be worth a day trip. Don't know Polish prices. I know last year they chopped their rates to entice Polish skiers to not go to (the better) resorts in Slovakia....
Jasna is an hour further and far more extensive.... |
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'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' by Stieg Larsson. Don't normally do thrillers after attempting Dan Brown and (even worse) Clive Cussler but this Swedish novel is as good as the hype...
Tino11 let me know if that Conrad book is any good - I just finished a modern Congo book (Blood River) that was excellent. If you like travel try Jonny Bealby |
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La Grave is not that tough - the obstacle is that if you go wrong you go to your own Grave...
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The Headwall at Crested Butte, Colorado, commonly used as the WinterX resort. Steep doesn't normally bother me, but when I got off the drag and traversed across to the entry point and saw the only real way out, I had a moment....
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