Liberty In High Demänovská

Day: 203 & 204

Towns / Cities Visited: 133

Countries Visited: 24

Steps Taken Today: 24,398

Steps Taken Around the World: 3,350,936

Once more, the first of these two days was spent simply moving from one place to another. Not because they were particularly far apart, but because the following day was to be one in which we crammed an adventure into the daytime and travelled to our next stop in the evening. As such, the details of the day are somewhat boring and inconsequential, thus I will simply give you the brief synopsis.

After waking up, ever so slightly hungover, forcing down some food, cramming our things back into their respective spots in our bags, and bidding farewell to our American room mates, we trekked to the train station. Jumping onto our locomotive we found ourselves loitering in the corridor of a cramped, stuffy, old compartment train. Unable to find free seats, we conceded to having to stand for the forty-five minute trip to our destination. Just as the journey was venturing into the realm of unbearable hot and unsteady for our current seediness, we arrived and alighted into the fresh air of Liptovský.

A short walk through this seemingly deserted town, including lugging our bags over some currently under construction road, we arrived at the closed gate of our hotel. After ringing the bell several times, and subsequently calling the hotels owner, the tiny Slovakian cleaning lady tottered out to let…