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At 4 am on 26th july 1997 the most people had already been sleeping. Two boys from Szolnok ...
An adventurous bicycletour to the Tatra (1997)
Gyorgyigabor2004-02-05 20:06:24
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day.”- said Zoli. It wasn’t a problem that I continued biking to the fortress. I was in a good shape, I had power. In the evening the number of our gathering increased by three people; the family of Zoli arrived. Nova Lesna - the village where we slept by a private house - had made itself ready for the tourists: there are a lot of houses and rooms to let. We paid 150 Sk for a night per person.
The clouds and rain that arrived at night broke away our plan about a sunny program, so we visited the largest, unbroken fortress of Middle Europe, Spisska by car. In Levoca and in other towns we realized gladly that the towns’ houses were under renovation. It was a pleasure to see the fresh painted houses, the flowers and the orderly centers, squares. In the folllowing morning the sunshine made us get up. We had free program. Zoli Maráz went to the polish town, Nowy Targ with his wife and child, while Zoli Rédei remained in the village to gather power for the following days. I chose to climb (by foot) the 2499m high Rysy, the highest point of Poland, that hike I should cancel in 1993, on my first Tatra-tour. In the lower section there were a lot of fir trees, and a nice lake. I enjoyed the land very much. In the last few kilometers there were chains fixed to the rocks to help the tourists. Sometimes I needed it to step up and up. On the top a lot of people were sitting, taking photos and enjoying the panorama. The view was fantastic: bare peaks in every direction, while north- and downwards the two famous lakes: Morskie Oko and the Black lake.
In the everning I could instigate the boys for a nice tour or hike, the voices of the rain on the window-sill (ablakpárkány) woke us up. Zoli decided: „It’s no worth staying, we should continue or biketour!” Both of us had right. In such a bad weather the people doesn’t even send his dog outside, but we had to go. On the ascent the rain fell onto our faces, but in addition we also
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