Day 245: Hervartov, Bardejov and Poland

Well I wrote a big long entry for today, but my computer crashed when I tried posting it and I don't feel like typing it all out again. We drove left Kosice and visited our first wooden church at Hervartov, where we had to ring the caretaker to let us in.

Spent a couple of hours checking out the medieval town of Bardejov in Slovakia, since it's quite well preserved. Nice square with cathedral, town hall, walls and other buildings. Filmed a video here.

Pressed on north-east to see the other wooden churches in the area which we did without much fuss but didn't go inside. There's three separate listings of wooden churches, one in Slovakia, one in Poland, and another of Poland/Ukraine combined. All are slightly different!

Finally we drove north across the border into Poland, where the mountains gave way to rolling farming country like France or the UK. Our Airbnb was in a very isolated spot, thankfully we had dinner provided for us. Staying alone in an 8-bed B&B, though the hosts are in a separate building next door.

Poland is country number 41 for me, 40 for Shandos, and 21 for Schnitzel!Read more