The exploits and adventures of a wife, mom and expat from Eastern Europe
Why Smolenice Castle? It happened to me, on occasion, to have a day off or free weekend with no plan. Not that I mind. I am quite content to spend my free day with a romantic book all by myself. 🙂 Somebody said that “he likes his own company”. I suppose I like mine too. 🙂
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In the last few years I’ve relocated quite a bit and I had a few experiences with respect to the house rental contract. There are many similarities between the Slovak rental contract and the Czech one.
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Turcianske Teplice was not a name I was familiar with. Aside from the fact that I could correctly repeat it  I couldn’t add much! 🙂
Castle lover or not if you are in Slovakia you should see some castles! There are many nice castles in Slovakia. Some are just ruins but other are in an amazing great shape.
Everybody is looking for good deals but many of us do not want to spend a lot of time going from shop to shop looking for the perfect thing. Or waiting for the opening hours in order to buy the best present.
One of the first things that we did after we moved to Slovakia was to apply for a medical insurance. If you are employed the employer will ask you anyway for the medical insurance card in order to pay the contribution.
We got the jobs and we got the flat. The next step was figuring out how to get from one to the other on a daily basis. We had a car but we couldn’t count on both of us using it. I always preferred the public transport because I am not an experienced driver. Fortunately Bratislava has a good system of public transportation and it is fairly cheap.
A few days after our arrival to Bratislava, having started our new jobs, we were wondering if we needed to cook our lunch or we could eat some place out in Bratislava.
