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that I recommend you spend a few hours exploring, it’s well worth the time

spent: Lonely Planet

Bard” in Prague and Krumlov House in Cesky Krumlov don’t take reservations anything more than two weeks in advance. You may

also want to note that the numbers for the former have changed recently to:

2271 6453/ 2271 4449.

made since the fax and phone share the same number. In my persistance I

phoned many times yet only succeeded in getting through to the fax. “So why

not send a fax?” you’re thinking. Well, I did, twice in fact, and got no

reply. So if you’re a budget traveller like myself, you might think about

opting for “Pension Schmidniger” instead, though the good old lady doesn’t

speak a great deal of English. So, if you know any German, don’t hesitate to

put it to use here, tel: (5356) 63134.

e-mail, but beware of getting the address right or you’ll get nowhere at

all: jgh.graz@jgh.at

qualities boasted by the Austrians. A while ago I made a reservation at the

Jugenherbergen in Vienna, a simple request: 2 nights for 2 people and this

seemed no problem for them. Only last week however, I received a letter

from them cancelling my reservation with no adequate explanation enlosed.

This hostel, somewhat surprisingly, does come highly recommended, but upon being left in the lurch I got back on the phone, with no time to waste, to book

myself in at the mixed reviewed “Hostel Ruthensteiner“. They can be e-mailed at: hostel.ruthensteiner@telecom.at

recently changed its number to: 361 3319896.

have posed their fair share of difficulties, unfortunately. Making

reservations may be a problem if you’re an English speaker with no knowledge

of German and furthermore, many of the numbers there have changed too just

to further complicate matters!

Don’t think about making a reservation at the

“Zbojnicka chata” mountain chalet as it burnt down last year, but do visit

this website to obtain the numbers of other moutain chalets if you’re thinking about making the reservations yourself. On the other hand, you

could try contacting “Stary Smokovec“, available on 4422402 who offers a

reservation service. You may like to note that ‘pensions’ – B&B type places

in the High Tatras – offer discounts on reservations made over the internet.

For hiking hints and routes in the Tatras you may well like to visit this website. You may be

interested to know that there is a book (somewhere!) called “Regions

Without Frontiers: The Slovak-Polish Tatras“, written by Daniel Kollar, Jan

Lacika and Roman Malarz, and published by “Dajarma”, yet seemingly hard to

come by given my efforts at trying to track it down.

ambitious adventure holiday like this, is one that faces many, many people. It’s not at this point that I propose any kind of magic

solution…if only! But there is a website worth checking out, though it

doesn’t cover Slovakia. It does however cover many other

destinations in Europe.

discovered that a FSME (meningo-encephalitis) injection comes highly

recommended for any hikers and campers. Not available on the NHS, I discovered upon doing some research that it will set you back about �80.

backpack, check this out.

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