How to hike to BioFarm Príroda close to Lozorno from Bratislava Slovakia

Hmm, how to start. I am back to homeland again for a little moment,before getting back to world again and I have decided to join one CS activity close to Capital city of Slovakia - Bratislava.

I am going to hitch-hike down there.
Do tomorrow hike which should be around 8 hours - let's see if I will be able to walk after it still (Last time I did 8 hour hike it was to Torres del Paine in Chilian Patagonia and the next day I would be happily let some butchet to cut my right leg just over the ankle). Anyway,there shouldn't be that huge changes in the hights, no running materials etc.

I writing this post just because in general to I wanted to put the probable map online and as I really like one page which I found looking for some calculator of turistic maps, but it seems to be in Beta version and I can't get the permalink from it and the clasical searchers doesn't drow it that pretty with all beautiful statistics.

I would like to write here how to work with this maps as well. As they are not in english and not everybody speaks slovak.

So here comes the MANUAL:
1.) You go to the point where you want to start your route. Click on right bottom of the mouse and choose the option "Začni trasu" - Start the route

2.) Then in some point if you would like to, you can try to put "Pridaj medzibod trasy" - means put the point in the middle - for example some place which you wouldn t like to miss.

3.) To put the ending point of the track choose the  "Ukonči trasu" - End of the route

4.) Then on the right side you have a bar, it s called hikepanner, you will be asked to choose Optimalization criterium for calculation of the route  -  "Optimalizuj trasu pre", where you can choose from 3 options - "minimálnu vzdialenosť" - the shortest distance, "minimálne prevýšenie" - minimal camber or "červenú značku" - red marking - long or mountain range routes.

5. ) And then press "vypočítať" - calculate.

And this is the result afterwards:

http://mapy.hiking.sk/

How to make Halusky (typical slovakian food) if u are outside of Slovakia

This is how it should look like

I have got many questions on this topic lately and thanks to my friend Paterson from Salvador I pushed myself to write a recipe to all the world to  know the Magical formula ;)
My halusky is bit different than original ones,but I have never met anybody who wouldn't like them,so here it comes ;)

Firstly,bryndza exists just in Slovakia and the countries where are Karpaty mountains - Means Ukraine and Romania (Yes,they know it as well in Romania,it said that our bačas originaly came from these lands walking with sheep looking for better grass,walking trough the mountains and remeber the history,this teritory was long long time one,not "billion"states like it is now)

So now,what u will need for Halusky itself:
Potatoes: Count for one person one potatoe (if they are the big once,if smaller,count one and half,always is enough and even more than it should be)
2 types of flour (wheet flour - no mandioca,no corn one,wheet one)If they dont have it,just take which they have,normaly is the one which they make bread with,so it means its not for cakes one ;) Anyway,maybe closer to the ecuatorial line you will be,more problems u will have to find such a thing like wheet flour.
1 egg (depands on how many people will be - but I would say for like max  6 people 1 egg, if u have to cook for 12 - make it 2)
pinch of salt
1 butter

The special sauce I invented once upon a time in stead of Bryndza (as u cant really get brindza anywhere outside of Karpaty region)
You will need:
Butter
Onion
Garlic
Milk or cream (if there is no cream,use milk)
Flour
Salt
Sugar
Beer and/or wine
Some green spices (I use anything which is green in general and not spicy in it - depands what I find in the kitchen and what smells good ;)

   How to make halusky itself:

Sometimes you can end up making halusky looking like this! ;)

Grate a potatoes on a side of cutter which is the thiniest one that it will make just kind of watery mass.(no slices or something like that. I know its a lot of work,but its the best that way)Do NOT spill the water from the mass out. Add 2 types of flour and bit of salt and egg in it. Just to make the mass sticky and bit running - f u put too much of flour,dont worry,u can put a bit of water in it as well. The mass should be something between sticky and running.
Put water in a big pot. Put a bit of salt in it.Make it boil. Put a bit of your dough on a chopping board. And u can start to "throw" (how we say) Halusky to the boiling salty water.
When the halusky will be swimming on the surface of the water for a little while (for exact people it could be like 2-3 minutes),you can take them out with a strainer and put them on a side to prepared bowl. After fishing several times of halusky,you can put a butter on them,to melt on them and dont make them to stick together.

How to make a sauce:
As I am alergic or better said I have some problems with clasical oil,I use instead butter and I think it tastes later better than if u made it on oil. But its your choice. Pur a butter on a saucepan. Make it melt.
Meanwhile chopp the onion on really small pieces. Put them to fry.Put a pinch of salt. During the time,pour a bit water after few minutes - to dont get dry. Till then u can be throwing halusky. When the onion gets a bit dryer and still doesnt have a color,pour a bit of beer. When it gets dryer,if u have some wine for cooking u can pour it there as well. All the alcohol will avaporate and there will just stay the better taste of onion. When the opion will be getting the nice golden color,cut the one piece of garlic to very small pieces,u can even smash it if u want and put it inside (than it again depands for how many people are u cooking).
Fry it a bit with another piece of butter and with the onion.. Put all the spices you found in the kitchen and thinking that it could taste good - I recommend the green one and not spicy ones (sorry I dont remeber which one should it be - but by the smell mayoran and some others).
Mix it. Now we are getting to making a real sauce :)

In a meanwhile you could make on a side to a small glass (2dcl) the mixture of milk and 2-3 spoons of sugar and 2-3 spoons of flour.Start pouring a normal milk to an onion and garlic on a saucepan - do max 2-3 dcl. Mix it.  Then pour the mixture you made aside to already the mixture on a saucepan - keep mixing it till it will go thicker and thicker. If its not getting thicker,just put there a bit more flour,but a little bit. When its warm,its more liquid than when it get colder ;) So dont worry. U can try it and put more salt or spices or sugar if u want. But this is normally it ;) Not a big magic ;)

  This is how it will look like

About Oškvarky (in english it should be burnt cinders),which normally in slovakia goes on the top.
Well,in south america I had a quite problems to find in different places bacon alike as in Slovakia. U can use english bacon or something which could be good bacon. But in general,please in Chile or on this side of Corillera,do not buy the bacon for Chicharones! And in general all the bacon I got in touch with its too salty for making Oškvarky. So its just up to u.

In general to halušky we use to eat at home (original place where I come from in Slovakia in our family) the cucumber salad. Easy to make easy to eat.
U will need:

It should look like this,don't worry,it's eatable ;)

Cucumbers (depending on how many people will be there,I would count 2 for one person,but not many people like this type of salad around the world. In north of Brazil once I made it for bigger presentation party the people were amazed and ate it sooner than halusky,in Marocco I had to eat it afterwards on my own ;)
Salt,Sugar,Vinegar.
Grate cucumbers on the second thickest part of the cutter,put inside a pinch of salt,a pinch of sugar and one small cap of the bottle u have vinegar from with vinegar. Mix and taste ;) It should just taste fine,if not,put more sugar or salt.
Anyway - my granny puts there peper to make it spicy and cutted pieces of tomatoes and peppers.But its not a necesity and I like it more without. Its just up to your taste ;)

And then I just can wish u anywhere you are on this planet: Bon Appetit!, Buen Provecho! or Dobrú Chuť!:)

How I hitchhiked from Piestany to Prague and back with some tips and tricks and stories (usual trip)

Well guys, as I use to do this kind of trip normally and I used to do it before and now on I just made 2 instruction videos. I am not sure if there are any more hitchhikers in Piestany,but it could would for someone who would go from Prague anywhere east or south - like Austria,Slovakia,Poland,Hungary etc.

And of course I will write down some little story for u from these last crazy days.

I know that this video is bit long,but I am just showing u around the places like where did I use to live and where I am staying at this moment,more or less telling u about slovakia and Piestany,what do we have there,showing u some parts. I wanted to make the video till the prague,but my battery on my mobile phone just simply died passing Brno. Anyway the rides going to Prague werent very interesting. I managed to make it on 3 stops,and I havent waited more than 2 minites. Actually the second stop from the border of czech republic I caught going out from the first car and showing my thumb of running to the main road.

Main "pull" for Prague from northern part of Slovakia starts in Trenčín

This is the way I went and this is the way I came back as well :)

So as u can see from the map the main norther pull for Prague starts around Trenčín. U would say that would be probably much easier to go cross - directly from Piestany crossing Hodonin to Brno and then hit the highway. Thats the way how the bus is going. But its not it,there are lot of small villages and towns which slows u down and its quite hilly,so not many people are passing trough. The highway from Bratislava to Povazska Bystrica is the fastest and mostly used for moving around. So u easily get a ride to Trenčín and then u connect on main pull where all the truck and carrs going from the north  and east are comming trough :)
The ride is about 366km how say the googlemaps,but with the bus takes about 5 to 6 hours. Hitchhiking even going longer way u can get till up to 4 hours of nonstop confortable ride and especially in generaly with very nice people (slovaks from north and moravians - eastern part of Czech republic are very nice and funny people).

The way back was the same track,but from Prague to Piešťany,this is bit more difficult after Brno and especially at night.

How to get to Hitchhiking spot in Prague

I was leaving Prague quite late tonight about 6 pm even though that there are long days and short nights over here (the sun goes down in about 10 pm and rises about 5 am) I was worried about the night situation and  I was even considering going to Bratislava,for the artifical light condition of the city.
As on the main pull if u stay in some part with is without lights u are doomed and at night noone will pick u up there,especially exit to highway next to Trenčín doesnt have any lights and there use to be pitchblack night. Means that u could get easily run over. And people doesnt really want to stop.
Here I made a small video for u who are lazy to look on maps and read some stuff which is telling u how to get very famous hitchhiking spot in Prague direction east/south from Prague.
As u would see there were some other hitchhikers as well,going to Humpolec,who stayed even there,when I was already gone. (But I changed the spot and went directly to the highway - not recommened for people who are scared of direct confrontation with a car or a truck,but surely u will get ride in about max 10 minutes. On higher exit u can wait for about one hour ot two,as the most of the people are not going really out of Prague,they are just heading for surrounding villages or South to Ceske Budejovice - which is exit about 20 km from there)

One tip I would give u if u stay on upper exit - get a sign telling Brno or Slovakia or whatever u like,the people will react as its very famous spot and there are always loads of hitchhikers.
Once I met there a friend with his new girlfriend whom I havent seen for about 2 or 3 years,as we were studding together and then he disappeared for studies to england and then to Holland. And we got a ride all of us - at that moment we were 5,we got a ride like refuges from Afganistan on the back of the truck,locked in the dark.I was hitching then with one friend from Costa Rica and we were going to Brno for a visit. Anyway,we had so much to tell that time that we stayed talking in Brno till late night with several beers :)
Then u realise how the world could be small and the people who have to meet will meet anyhow!
Again back to exit: Exlude from your asking look cars with number plates of A (Prague - Capital) and S (stredocesky kraj - central czech region - means surroundings of Prague).

to my ride back,it was quite fun as I got ride by german truck driven by turkish driver :) And my turkish is almost forgotten and lost. Almost as bad as my Romanian,which I realised that is almost nonexistent at this moment. But from turkish I was able to lead basic conversation when I was leaving Turkey almost 2 years ago after 3 weeks of hitchhiking over there:)
So,I was talking with my rubbish turkish mixed with german and I felt like champion in german speaking as I could say everything I needed at that moment. And I understood all what was told to me.
Turkish are always very nice and hospitable and may times very funny people. They have different body expressions than the europeans from my part of europe,but maybe I will write about this another time on another place. Anyway,the interesting thing was that I got to know that he was actually going from Hamburg to kurdish part of Turkey. And that he was doing the routes to Iran as well and to Dubai. So,guys!
QWho wants to go hitchhiking to Dubai? Let me know,I would know how :D
At the end He had to stop close to Jihlava because of time driving restrictions on european roads - means 4,5 hour then hour break. And I went out to look for my luck! It was already raining. I helped my turkish driver to choose the baguete without pork ("Yeah,its quite funny,when someone ask u: Please,could u tell me in which is no pig?":D Tavuk won the prize (tavuk means the chicken,which reminds me slovak word pavuk - spider, just the memotechnic help - imagine geneticly modified chicken with 8 legs and it will stay in your mind forever:D )
The first person who went out from service station building I asked and he was the slovakian with number plate on his truck ZA (means Zilina - means my way:)  And that was my ride. We were abotu many things,especially I was finally openy talking about all the things in some order of South America and my travel.
And at the end even though he was going about 30kms more northern and had to stay with the truck already,he dropped me home,really close to the place where I live :) Nice person :) And that would be it!

How and mainly why I am back to Europe

Well,how many of u know,or even dont know as in some point I stopped writing,I am back home again.
I was trying to get some job in Santiago de Chile and when I got to know the conditions,with which they

Haluska party,Cooking with Pali -
Another slovakian which appeared
to be in Santiago at the same time :)
I thank a lot for Palis help
and support!  (and as well
of other great people I met in Chile)

would be able to make me a contract - as I was there just on tourist visa,the conditions for the companies were highly unrentable - like paying a fine of 600 dolars plus buying a ticket back to my country before subscribing any contract with u and be able to make u work visa there.  tried to do my best and did some events - like Haluska or Bramborak Praty,where who wanted could leave some contribution. And as well,I was trying to teach english,at the beginig I was offering as well french and portuguese and german,but when my phone was taken and many people had the number and promised to come for classes,couldnt reach me,I have just printed the annoucments with English teaching.

StrudelBeawer :D

The trouble in Chile is,that yes,many people call everyday,many people wants classes,but at the end,even though u have arranged something,and even regular students u have to run after them,with confirmations etc ...
It was highlytireing and at the end of all most of the people were just simply lying  and I resigned on them,listening on the phone how they need urgently classes,the next day before leaving the house with eveything prepared they send email to tell u that they are not inerested anymore. Not even message on the phone,nor even call,but email - as its for free and u are obviously 24/7 online.
Well,I heared many lies and promises in Santiago, and this was one of the reasons why I decided to packed it over there from my financial part. That wouldnt be though and though the moving motor to make me come back. I got messages from my parents that my Grandma is very bad on it with health and during the time I was in Santiago,she ended up 3 times in hospital with different troubles. And it looked very bad.
She asked me to come back before ... And even though I was thinking about it billion times again and again,it was one of the moving motors,or at least the strongest one which made me to make a final decision.
As who knows a bit our culture,knows as well,that the grandparents are the people who rise u up at the end,as your parents never are there or doesnt have any interest to spend time with u.

Soy Chilena! :D

The third reason which made me to make a definite move and its the things which will decide what will be with me later on is that when I was still in Buenos Aires,was the highest time to apply for next year back in Czech Republic for University. And I was telling it many times,I would love to study again and different subject that I did and that is Diplomacy. Even though I wouldnt like to "play a ball" how we say,for any state,but I am highly interested in projects of development,human rights, spreading the education etc... U would say,for this u dont have to study again for a years,the things is there is an offer to study different languages as well during the time on university and there are lot of scholarships available for a students to go study the thing abroad and apply what they learnt. When I was somewhere outhere I as well realised that I need some base of economics and finance management,as that would be the thing which would make me to be financialy independent and do whatever I want.(met some people on my trip who did it and who are actually at this moment working on being absolutely independent and live their adventures).So... Lets see,how everything will go on. And I would like to learn Arabic as well :) The magical language - that I wouldnt be able to do in south,central or even north america. (I tried to got to some course in Buenos Aires,but it was the level intermediate and I was too in hurry to stay few weeks for a tests,I am crazy bum :P).
What else? Though this is an explanaition,I will write more about my travel later on. As on my was back I crossed Peru,Bolivia and Paraguay to get Back to Brazil to spend 24hours in Rio and get my ass back to Sao Paolo to catch my flight,all hitch-hiking. And after arrival to Barcelona get my ass nonstop running to Slovakia (as in Prague was raining when I was passing by and it was 2 am and I didnt have anything arranged there,without my phonenumbers,as they stayed in another phone,I would have to stay the night on the street waiting till the morning in rain). So I picked continuing till Slovakia :)
But thats another story I will tell u later on!