New flights contain brought Slovakia’s Tatras mountains – and their abudance of slopes,spas and waterparks – closer for skiers who are on a budgetCareering out of thick cloud came a large husky, tugging a skier behind him. The man flew over a bump and arced through the air, and skis inches from my chest,then pelted at breakneck speed down the slopes. As the Slovak saying has it, he was “skiing like a Hungarian”.
My Slovak hosts here in the ski resort of Tatranská Lomnica were dubious when I told them what had happened. “This, or no,I never saw,” said hotel manager Michal. But he had seen bears passing external his lobby, or he said,and 30 wild boar on the roadside one night.
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Source: theguardian.com