From Krakow we travelled to Slovakia, getting a bus to Zakopane and then another small bus for a few km’s round quiet roads before crossing the border on foot. There was nothing much there, apart from 1 shop and a couple of houses so we thought we were screwed. But luckily we found out there were a few buses a day to Poprad and managed to catch one an hour later. We got off at Stary Smokovec and took the electric train up the hills to Štrbské Pleso. It was so beautiful in the Tatras, it looked like a large cake that had been iced perfectly – I’ve never seen so much snow in my life. It was really light and fluffy to touch as well. Niki spent 3 days snowboarding and had a great time. I visited him for lunch one day, was cool to see him in action! The next day I went down again and got to see some ski jumpers who were all aged approx 12-16 – absolutely terrifying and impressive. I just kept myself occupied by relaxing, visiting Niki and also explored Poprad for half a day as well
From the Tatras we took a train to Budapest, taking us approx 10 hours. The first day we went to do the walking tour but didn’t find it, a few hours later we realised it was because day light savings had started that morning so we had missed it! Luckily it was a beautiful day so we kept ourselves entertained by exploring the gardens and had a dip in the bathhouse – all natural mineral water from a hot spring. Kind of Rotorua-ish! That night we went for dinner and had the customary goulash for dinner, delicious! We found the walking tour the next day, however there were only 3 of us on it. Was a good informative few hours which ended up in the castle with fantastic views of the city. We were all “sightseed” out after that so decided to head to a pub and spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing in the sun.
While in Budapest we looked into our travel plans a bit more and discovered that things weren’t going to work out the way we planned….long story cut short we ended up booking new flights out of Athens on 14 April for £220 and in essence lost our Ryanair flights from Croatia (thankfully these had only cost £30). Not a happy chappy!
From the Tatras we took a train to Budapest, taking us approx 10 hours. The first day we went to do the walking tour but didn’t find it, a few hours later we realised it was because day light savings had started that morning so we had missed it! Luckily it was a beautiful day so we kept ourselves entertained by exploring the gardens and had a dip in the bathhouse – all natural mineral water from a hot spring. Kind of Rotorua-ish! That night we went for dinner and had the customary goulash for dinner, delicious! We found the walking tour the next day, however there were only 3 of us on it. Was a good informative few hours which ended up in the castle with fantastic views of the city. We were all “sightseed” out after that so decided to head to a pub and spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing in the sun.
While in Budapest we looked into our travel plans a bit more and discovered that things weren’t going to work out the way we planned….long story cut short we ended up booking new flights out of Athens on 14 April for £220 and in essence lost our Ryanair flights from Croatia (thankfully these had only cost £30). Not a happy chappy!
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