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Originally Posted by Dalmatiansoap
Nice motto.
Have you been here?
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I've been to Croatia many times, Makarska, Split, Vodice... lots of fun there.
Vodice were quite a hot climate actually but so cold water (6 days of cold water out of 10). If it had over 22°C, I'm going to eat my shoe (it was in July). Other than that, perfect. I liked the girls as well, but only then found out that many were from Hungary and Slovakia (just kidding, your girls are lovely to watch and talk to)
The problem there generally is with the sea is, that if it rains too much one day, the water remains cold for another 3 days.
Here, in the southermost Slovakia, we have the
drinking water level so low (7m), that after the gravel has been gathered (about 1 meter layer - Danube Delta), artificial lakes are created, large enough for you not to see the other side of the bank. And once they heat up, they stay hot (27°C) almost till september. That's why I'm not used to cold water.
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Originally Posted by Dalmatiansoap
Nice motto.
My brother went to Slovakia four days ago and he is coming back today. Says that it was great trip.
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Our Slavic cultures are (fortunatelly) much alike, I believe that's the reason why we have little or no problems fitting in each other's communities, getting to know people and meet new friends quickly.
There are people here at my university, that are descendants of Slovaks living in the Croatia and Serbia (from the times when the Osman Emire conquered the Balcan region (sorry, but it is the only precise term, southern Europe was never invaded) and southern Central Europe and the "migration of nations" began).
They are fluent in Slovak and as I've been discussing the differences among our cultures, they said, it's pretty small, if any.
My personal experience with Russians, Croatians, Ukrainians... only confirms it...
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Originally Posted by Dalmatiansoap
Nice motto.
We are little waried about tourist seson this year, every body is talking about that global crises but I hope that will go as usuall and that there is going to be a lot of Slovaks here.
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And finally, this year might be quite bad. Out of 1,5 million Slovaks that travel round the world in summer, about 1 million travel to Croatia. However, the crisis has been bad to our nation (and other, that I was able to see in Croatia during holiday). Germans, Czechs, Hungarians, Slovaks... many people have lost their jobs, the businesses have almost stopped and you can see, that people don't buy more, than they actually need (and sometimes even less, than they need).
I'm afraid, that there'll only be about 100 000 people (estimate of our ministry of work, social affairs...) travelling on their holiday abroad this year from Slovakia... most of the people will settle with their own possibilities (lakes in Slovakia, Balaton and other in Hungary, thousands of people will invade our mountains (Tatra and Carpathian mountain region)...).
As I've said already, the business has stopped and it's not likely to move, unless all the reserve materials, products etc have been depleted.