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Stroppymonkey
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I’m off to Belgium with the wife next month . Cycling the scenic route from Belgium to Bruges. Probably not a pleasurable activity for many on here 
diggerjones
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Called in Belgium couple years ago, back from Switzerland.
Called at the trenches museum in Belgium and watched the last post in Ypres. Very interesting and thought provoking
Called at the trenches museum in Belgium and watched the last post in Ypres. Very interesting and thought provoking
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6feetdown
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Been to Zakopane region of Poland just across the mountains lovely
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
my enduring memories of Belgium travelling through it off the ferry at Oostend, as a young teenager, was the over powering stench of cow p*ss that they sprayed on the fields everywhere 
have avoided the country ever since
have avoided the country ever since
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Stroppymonkey
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Sounds/smells like home then - North Devon is in the top 3 highest concentration of dairy cows in country I believe.my enduring memories of Belgium travelling through it off the ferry at Oostend, as a young teenager, was the over powering stench of cow p*ss that they sprayed on the fields everywhere
have avoided the country ever since
Quattromike
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Devon knows why that is
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Lurch
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My other half is slovakian and we on holiday here at moment.
What part you going to?
diggerjones
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Flying to bratislava for a week in June. No plans, couple nights in bratislava. Maybe Vienna, hungry, Poland to see auschwitz. Probably hire a car.
It looks like a cool place
It looks like a cool place
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Lurch
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Bratislava is quite nice . The wife's family are in the west but I find the north east the nicest countryside and nicer people we are at a place called zdiar about 3km from Polish border.
We spend alot of time in that region because of the tatra mountains
We spend alot of time in that region because of the tatra mountains
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Snow still on mountains but 22 degrees
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Vienna is lovely ...
Done a fair bit of Hungary ..
was a very poor country when I was there in '90 but some very nice bits -
Budapest was nice ..
the Pooshta (?) was interesting but extremely flat - went out horse riding there
..lake Balaton was lovely too ...
the government had recently quadrupled the price of fuel (removed subsidies) and very few garages had fuel, so had to fill up when you found it, even if it was only a gallon (Kawi only had a 3-ish gallon tank that'd cover about 120-130 miles
) Bet it's a very different place now.Went to Hungary to meet up with my best mate, who was visiting family there, so had a translator some of the time ...
my Hungarian is pretty limited - some unrepeatable
If Auschwitz is anything like Dachau Dyl, it's an eerie quiet place, with what can best be described as a 'presence' ... gives me goose bumps/back of the neck bristle, thinking about the brief time I spent there ..
the huge rallying arena in Nuremberg has a similar feel to it ... built on a lake apparently, drained and filled in by hand by prisoners - it's vast and similarly eerie
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A few pictures of us getting a cable car up to lomnicky stit a hight of 2634 meters with poprad in the distance. Once on top you are looking down in to poland.
The red arrow is where the cable car goes to.
Also a couple of pics of a pleso when we visited last year
The red arrow is where the cable car goes to.
Also a couple of pics of a pleso when we visited last year
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Gecko
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I've been to a few - Dachau, Mittelbau-Dore (where the V2 rockets were built), Natzweiler in Alsace, but not Auschwitz.
Eerie is right.
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6feetdown
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3 of us went, when we came out nobody really spoke for nearly an hour afterwards
diggerjones
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I watched a program on YouTube about a factory building rockets, ammunition or something like that built into a mountain side. Would this be the 1 your talking about.
They had a mass hanging 50+ on the overhead gantry crane. To keep morral up every now and then
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6feetdown
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Sorry ment AuschwitzI watched a program on YouTube about a factory building rockets, ammunition or something like that built into a mountain side. Would this be the 1 your talking about.
They had a mass hanging 50+ on the overhead gantry crane. To keep morral up every now and then
Gecko
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The V2 factory at Mittelbau-Dora was certainly in a tunnel system driven into the side of a hill.
The tunnels were still sealed off (from being blasted at the end of the war) when I was there, but apparently have now been opened for access.
yep - same.
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