I noted that Prievidza is small, yes? Well take small and divide it by small and you have its train station. What the one woman who worked there lacked in English skills, she made up in charm.
She was thoroughly happy to help me navigate my way back to Budapest. My itinerary had a one and half hour stop-over in Nove Zamky, along the Slovakian-Hungarian border. I try getting out of the stations at these stop-overs, and I’m glad I did at Nove Zamky. The avenues are lined with Communist-era block houses. As I was looking up at them, I spotted this rainbow.
A fitting picture of a young country, founded only in 1993 after its separation from Czech, which is quickly climbing out of its Communist cobwebs. With its 19% flat tax spurring development and investment, Slovakia is becoming one of the fastest-growing countries in Eastern Europe.
Benjamin Thomas
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