Quote of the Week:


"If I was to compete with a pile of chaff, it still would win."


Vladimír Mečiar, the leader of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), about the victory of Ivan Gašparovič in the presidential elections in 2004.


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Over the weekend, several centimetres of snow, the first bigger cover of the season, fell in the High Tatras.

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Píšem or pišám?

"Do ľava," (to the left) I yelled, "Nie, do prava" (no, to the right), I gasped. "Dolšie," I screamed. "Nie, nie, horšie..." My Slovak girlfriend collapsed in laughter. Was it something I said?


Matthew J. Reynolds
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