After successfully leaving Hliník nad Hronom through the help of my new Slovakian friends, I took a couple trains to a town in central Slovakia called Ružomberok (pronounced: Roo-zhom-bare-oak.) After being apart for a couple weeks, Lisa and I reunited there for a relaxing weekend. It is a pretty good sized town and has all sorts of options for accommodation; people often stay there when skiing in the low section of the Tatras mountain chain. Since it was off-season, though, we were able to find a very nice penzion that only charged about 8 Euros per night.
Prior to going there, some people told me that the whole town smells funny due to a nearby paper factory. I didn’t smell anything, though. Who knows.
A WAYFARER'S MURMURINGS 