Slovakia in 42 days: Travel in the Trenčín and Trnava Region

To sit – after visits to many castles and ruins – and have a coffee at the Trenčín ice hockey stadium on a hot summer day and to watch trainings on ice is quite a unique traveller’s combination. If you meanwhile happen to meet Marián Gáborík or Edo Hartman, it can be a great chill – and our feet remained dry if it began to rain again... Then you see how Muslims and Jews can meet on neutral soil in Piešťany and how in Dunajská Streda someone from abroad might not mind at all if you are greeted with either Dobrý deň or Jónapot.

To sit – after visits to many castles and ruins – and have a coffee at the Trenčín ice hockey stadium on a hot summer day and to watch trainings on ice is quite a unique traveller’s combination. If you meanwhile happen to meet Marián Gáborík or Edo Hartman, it can be a great chill – and our feet remained dry if it began to rain again... Then you see how Muslims and Jews can meet on neutral soil in Piešťany and how in Dunajská Streda someone from abroad might not mind at all if you are greeted with either Dobrý deň or Jónapot.

A TV programme in English covering the travels of American journalist and photographer Amanda Rivkin, who is discovering Slovakia for the 15th edition of the guide Spectacular Slovakia.

Chapters of the programme:
Bratislava
Banská Bystrica Region
Prešov Region
Košice City
Košice Region
Romathan
Žilina Region
Bratislava Region
Nitra Region
Trenčín and Trnava Region

The Slovak Spectator annually invites a different foreign journalist to travel around Slovakia and write the guide. The Spectacular Slovakia guide for the season 2010/2011 will be on sale at the website Petitshop.sme.sk or spectator.sk as of September 13.

The TV programme is prepared in cooperation with TV.SME

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