Smelly Swiss Dilettante

[Jean]

finaly, we stayed on moskenes, i did a few hikes on flagstad, and now, we arrived on vaeroy. First impression is great, i want to buy a house here

[chenda]

First impression is great, i want to buy a house here

Hehe, I thought the same : ) how are you finding the costs ?

[Jean]

food is still a bit more expensive than switzerland. you visited værøy as well? First two times in the lofoten, i didn't visit it because i thought it would be over crowded.

[chenda]

food is still a bit more expensive than switzerland. you visited værøy as well? First two times in the lofoten, i didn't visit it because i thought it would be over crowded.

Not Værøy but I've been to other archipelagos further south. I feel at home in Norway for some reason.

[Jean]

we are leaving the lofoten. i wanted to go to cornwall next, but i realised i need my passport for that now, so i'll go to slowakia.
I really loved værøya, it's maybe my favourite place in norway now.

[chenda]

Cornwall would have been crowded at this time of year, it's best to visit spring or autumn time.

[Jean]

thanks for the tip, i still want to do a cornwall channel island trip sometime. do you still live in the uk? or you moved to portugal?

[chenda]

I do about 6 months in each, I keep my uk residency though. Sark and Herm are especially worth visiting imo, they are both car free as well.

[Jean]

@chenda, thank for the tip, i might go there this fall.

also, there are flight from zrh to lax for 529, so i'm thinking about going to the ere fest, i just need it to fit into a bigger plan, because i wouldn't fly for just 2 weeks.

Is anyone in the tatra next week? i'll start and end in slovakia, but will hike in poland too.

[Kielbasy]

This blog I used to read for cooking from Slovakia has a post on the tatras.

https://www.slovakcooking.com/2011/blog ... atry-hike/

Enjoy your visit

[Jean]

thanks, it was a pleasant read.
I'm looking forward to it.

[Jean]

i'm in the high tatra, i crossed into poland from oravice. I eard the camping ban is enforced, so i stay in the hut.
It's the first time i'll hike from hut to hut. It's very common in switzerland, but too expensive for my taste, so i never did it.
There are people, but not too much.
Mountains are nice.
Hut is nice too.
Also, people are nice, but i'm forced to practice my polish a lot.

[Jean]

I saw a brown bear, it ran away from me.

[Jean]

western polish tatry were fine, i'm now in the secret camping in morskie oko, now i know what zbigi meant when he said they were crowded. they are crowded. but i'm having a good time.

[zbigi]

Morskie Oko hiking trail

[guitarplayer]

ever since my childhood it seems (although the photo looks dated, too).

By the way how do you embed photos like so rather than posting a link? Tried to find out but I guess not hard enough.

[Henry]

So its like Disneyland without the rides.

[mathiverse]

By the way how do you embed photos like so rather than posting a link? Tried to find out but I guess not hard enough.

If you quote a post with an image like zbigi's above, you'll see an example of how to do it. The gist is to put [img]Then a url here. Then, the closing tag.[/ img] (No space between the forward slash and "img" in the closing tag if you want it to work.)

[Jean]

it's not that bad, but i have a train to catch in slovakia, and rysy is in the middle, so i put a alarm for 5am.
Also, it's really funny how the camping is quiet and not full so close to this very crowded paved "trail".

[guitarplayer]

In Spain and Portugal there are state run campsites, some of them very basic, but all for free - only need to book online to be legally okay to camp there. Some of them are in spots like the one you described, for example this one on the island of Madeira:

https://goo.gl/maps/FWpAzFDRF8s7XibX7

We stayed there for three days if I remember, it was excellent.