Žilina

Well, going to Zilina was an adventure. Not an adventure actually. I don´t know how to call it.

I was hitchhiking from Nitra. The guy did not speak English and I didn´t speak Slovak/Cz/Polish/Russian/etc. There is more to come to that story, but I am not going to write it. When people asked me if something had happened while I was hitchhiking I always said no. But now I can´t say it anymore.. Fucking arse. Nothing happened, I was just frightened and surprised because I thought those are just stories lets say. That fat disguisting man dropped me off at Prievidza and I was really happy to get out. I was scared to hitchhike again, but I did it. Second guy was okay, did not have the same language again :D I was scared that he wants something from me aswell, but he didn´t. Luckily. We went to eat together actually :D

It was super fancy place, probably the fanciest place I have even been to #Maakas

Bloody crosses on the doors #Atheist

Da toilet

And some free stuff #CheapBitch

He dropped me off and once again I was hitchhiking. 3rd guy also was okay (he didn´t know where Estonia was...) and ofc he didn´t speak English.. All the Slovakkians don´t speak English or what? In Serbia I was pleasantly surprised that so many people spoke English.

The last guy dropped me off next to the building where my host volunteers. Met up with Lucas, the guy I was staying with (#CouchSurfing). Drank Kofola (Cz Coca-Cola), went to eat and went to have a cuppa of tea. The tea place was so cozy :) At his place we watched a movie called Mr.Loney. The movie didn´t make sence to me

Next day Lucas showed me the city. Burgher houses

Some square

Magic bar

I was thinking to go up to the hill, but for some reason I didn´t.. Main square

The church of 3 principals

Went to one art show where they showed how the process goes step by step

Went inside to nova synagoga

Renovation has been going on for 6 years and 95% is already done

  

Once it was used as a cinema aswell, now it will be a culture house

From outside looks the same as now

Went to another exhibition. Sah small piano

Nice balcony

Dorothea Lange. California. 1935. Cotton picker

Ben Shahn. Mississippi. 1935. Loading cotton

Dorothea Lange. California. 1935. Off to the melon fields

Russell Lee. Missouri. 1938. Father of FSA client

Dorothea Lange. Texas. 1938. This house is occupied; most of the houses in this district have been abandoned

It was really hot weather so we went to have a drink

Lol in da toilet. Hey fatty boom boom

As I remember, there was a guy up there which looked like Lenin

Went exploring, saw some trains which doors were open

Didn´t want to spend too much time inside, cos I was afraid the doors will close :D

Getting bigger and bigger

Budatin castle

We were chilling by the river cos the weather was nice. Water wasn´t so warm tho

Vah river

Yay GoPro

Went with Lucas to the place he is voulnteering in. We took a shortcut and crossed some train tracks

Weird slides in Slovakia

Lahke means kind in Estonian

I was in Zilina for 2 nights and on the last morning, me and Lukas hitchhiked to Tatra mountains. He had couple days off so he joined me. We walked to the end of the city and thumbs up. Waited quite long, but was worth waithing. Off to Tatra mountains!

Nitra

When I was in Vienna with Domška, I was thinking what to do next and where to go. I applyed with Worldpackers to Nitra to volunteer and couple days later I was off to Nitra. Bus cost 3,5€ and was around hour

The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

I applyed to promote social media, do pictures and videos. Most of the time I had to hang out in the common room and wait until something happens. Usually something happened during the night

They had a wall "Before I die" That was cool :)

Once they had one Estonian guy volunteering and he wrote that :)

Diy wall

Finito

All the crew

Went to party

Random guy

Cool lock

Jarka is living in Nitra so we met up for a second. She posted this in the Cinema group and Michal wrote "You found her in a bar, I´m surprised" :D

Cool toilet signs

Typical slav squatting next to a club

In the hostel there was shitloads of italians. I haven´t liked italians so much before but after being there, I dislike them even more. Sorry not sorry. Those italians knew that non-italians are there aswell, but they still talked italian all the bloody time... At some point they realised that they are talking in italian and talked bit in English. And ofc they started talking in italian again...

They made good food tho

Estonian cheese company! 

One Estonian city is called Loksa

Went to a all-you-can-eat-buffee. It was good

...but there was nothing left

...like nada. We had leftovers. And they didn´t bring more :''

Dessert was okay

Mmmm, in one shopping center there was a chinese and mmm that was good

Italians be like -> Love making fun of italians tho

One other volunteer from UK made very good cakes and this one looks like Estonian cake called "varicolured dog" (kirju koer)

Late night dinners around 22ish, in the kitchen, and on the wall is a map of people who have visited their hostel

This was the common room

Oo love that game #CardsAgainstHumanity

Edited this video for them because this was the reason I was there + I posted pictures to Instagram and maybe even Facebook

Went walking around Nitra because I hadn´t seen it much even tho I had been there long enough

Andrej Bagar Theatre

Lets go to swagatam!

View to Zobor mountain

Nice place where the kids can be in the playground and you will just relax and drink beer (for 1,2€)

Nitra castle

Tried to get to the castle but as I found out when I had to go back to the starting point that there is only one entrance.. :D

This seat looks like a coffin

More Zobor

Went inside the castle and there was a person of church sitting and praying and other church person taking photos of him with a fancy camera. I lol´ed

Wooden last supper-ish

More Zobor. Love the mountains <3

View to Nitra

Went up to Calvary hill

The Virgin Mary´s mission house. Was built in 1765

View to Nitra from other side and ofc my baby Zobor back there

City park. I went to read, watch ducks and take a break from pasta people

Nitra river. I was so tempted to go swim in there

Long arms is long

Was looking for a place where would be sharp scissors so I could finally cut my hair. Too long, too annoying, too messy

Yay!

Was so happy <3

Leftovers

One Slovak guy, who looked like Ryan Gosling, took us to see around Nitra with his car

In his he could change the salon´ color

Nitra castle

Then to place which was bit further where was a church

Nitra

Went with 2 italians to Zobor cos they were going and I wanted to go there since day one. We went stright as possible, aka through bushes, rivers and roads. Not through rivers tho cos the italians didn´t want to..

588 m

On top of Zobor it was so bloody windy..

After those bushes

Why?

Aghhh want! 3D maps to see what area is more higher

The British girl who baked all the time and that was her story of making pasta

That happened again

One the last day we watched the movie "Hostel" In the movie there was a chimney next to the hostel and bad things happened there. Near our hostel was also a chimney. Bad things happened there, but luckily I made it out alive

In there I was also so bloody confused because I wanted to get away, but I didn´t know where.. We agreed to meet with Liisa in Krakow so that was one goal, but I still had time before going there. To some places it was really hard to get in to, no roads or expencive, or going through Bratislava and I had been there already

Finally I decided to go to Zilina. Took a city bus for 0,50 € to get outside the town, walked where there was no path for pedestrians (on the grass). Walked long time until I found a place to hitchhike. Waited about 15 minutes and got a ride