What a great weekend getaway this was for a 32nd birthday and Valentines combo. Alexa and I both adored the accommodation as well which provided. a great education in self sufficiency and relaxation techniques. 2 km away from civilization, across a forest brook, wood fired everything. Sauna, house, bath tub, it's a gem. And the pitch perfect launching off point towards any number of adventures. UNESCO preserved, medieval gold mining towns, scintillating bath houses from the silver age of spas, and any number of castle, church, forest, ruin. authentic slovak and hungarian cultural bonanza. And my ancestors are from here. One of them apparently went by the name of felvidéki Vilmos and he was a Hungarian bath house historian. (continue below)
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I found his old diary in the archives. And he had one section, about 10 pages long, circled, and that's why I love Slovakia. It went on to tell the story of an excursion he took up there. Many years ago. It was at a time when they still called it the Felvidék. And yet, up here in the north, said this Vilmos, there was a definitive Slovak culture. Mixed cities and towns, for sure, different nationalities. And plenty, I mean plenty, of Germans. It was a land of contrasts and mixed cultures, and kings and queens, and rich and poor. It always had been. At least as long as anyone could remember.
There were robbers in the hills more often than not. Especially the dreaded Dotzi Gang. You see, even though Felvidéki Vilmos was indeed a 19th century man. He had traveled, allegedly, I mean this may have all just been in his head you know, through many different eras.
But at the current passage, this, "That's why I love Slovakia," passage ... it seems that he was in the 15th Century queen beatrix and king Mátyás times. And that's when the dreaded Dóczyak ruled the roost from their perch in the Sasovska HRAD aka the Saskő vára.
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