View from our balcony although it was a bit cloudy on this shot. The valley in between is where we walked along the loggers trail.
Wednesday 31st August
Left Zakopane and the weather has certainly got a bit cooler only 14 degrees not quite what we have been used to. The next place that we are booked into is just over the top of the mountains and into Slovakia small village called Zdair. The scenery on the way was just amazing. Found the village no problem especially as we have Sally the sat nav to help us, although my navigational skills I think are improving. Got here a bit early so we had a browse around first. Found the post office, small Souvenier shop and a museum, thought I would have a look in the museum and suddenly in charged a large woman with a broom and she started saying rapidly 'ticket ticket' so I said I was only english and thought I would make my exit! It wasn't much of a museum anyway.
We have 'room with a view!' Its fantastic so we can just sit on the balcony and gaze at all the mountains surrounding us. Never had this before either where we were given a pair of slippers each to wear inside. Gary's are a lovely shade of blue. On the landing in between the rooms there is a kitchen which is handy to use if we want to.
The range of mountains are the highest in the Tatra's, the highest called Genachovsky Stit 2654.
Car parking is expensive here and there seems to be two charges one for the morning and then another for the afternoon, which is a lot if people are doing a lot of walking and most of the walks around here are very long.
There are a lot of tourists around the very large mountains more than i thought there would be.
We have been told that it has been known to snow around this time of year hope it doesn't as we forgot our jackets and thicker fleece jackets.
The Loggers trail
Thursday 1st September
Breakfast at 8.00am. Plenty to eat again, lots of meats and cheeses and bread. Decided on a walk today from just across the road from us. Crossed a river via log bridge that I think had been there for years! and we followed a track which was a logging track. That's why there wasn't any tourists and it made such a nice change. It was so quiet with just the sound of the water running down from the mountains. Came across two Slovac loggers they shouted hello and told us to be careful as it was a logging trail. Further on we saw more of them with horses and they were felling some pine trees up the top of the hillside and then getting the horses to drag them down. The trail did eventually end and we did find some bear paw prints, I was only saying to Gary that I would love to see some bears but when I saw the prints I thought maybe not a good idea. There are only 700-900 of them in the area along with wolves, deer, pine martins. Saw deer tracks as well, but unfortunatly not an animal in sight.! we finally arrived back to the hotel after 3 hours so we had walked quite a long way. In the afternoon we visited a medival village called Spisske Sobota, the houses were in an amazing style, we had never seen anything quite like them.
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It is getting quite cold in the evenings now although the weather during the days is still good.
A train ticket attendent! she looked a bit scary.
Friday 2nd September
Had a bit of a lazy day today, after breakfast we went and caught the mountain train and that took about an hour travelling hugging along the sides of the mountains. We had another little bit of walk but it was hard going being a very rough track and also a lot of tourists (again). so we decided we had enough and made our way back. Now relaxing and thinking of the journey back towards home as it is going to take us a while. Leave tomorrow for Leipsieg in Germany then on to Brugge to stay there for two nights.
