It striked me yesterday. While my body needed a good night’s sleep, my mind kept on trying to find the reason why living in Slovakia has not been an unforgetable experience so far. Not that I’m the only one getting this feeling from life in Bratislava, but it’s been bothering me for some time now. […]
Lost in translation
Wandering around Slovakia: Pezinok
A few kilometers north of Bratislava there is a range of small vignard villages peacefully living their life… A few kilometers north, it’s not much, but it’s enough to get a feeling of what life is outside the capital city. It’s at least enough to eat something special and to drink proper Slovak wine. It […]
Changing criteria
We, the both of us together, started travelling in 2011. Leaving France, our home, our jobs for a better place. The question was: where to? How do you choose a country to live in? How can you choose when you don’t know what the place looks like? We- I speak for ourselves- can’t. We can’t […]
Koľko jazykov vieš, toľkokrát si človekom
“The more languages you know, the more men you are.” Being a teacher doesn’t mean that you have all the knowledge. Being a teacher includes learning from your students. And last week, I learnt something. A simple sentence, an old proverb still used in Slovakia. A proverb that explains why Slovaks are open-minded, why it’s […]
Hide-and-seek: Secrets of Bratislava
On my very first day in Bratislava I noticed two things: the blue sky and this gentleman keeping me company in the main square. A week later, while wandering around the old town I saw my gentleman’s friend: the man […]