From the cool Mountains of Slovakia

It doesn't matter if you have snow or not - if you are staying in a ski resort - you _have_ to take the cable car to the top. Which is exactly what we did - to a summit of 1700m - not the highest resort in the world, but very beautiful, and very under-developed.

The cable car didn't quite get to the summit, so we started treking - we passed several Slovak ramblers who seemed bemused by our choice of hiking clothes. Personally I thought they were fine - goretex, durable, breathable, and stiff boots. Although DelBoy was a bit OTT bringing his crash helmet...

I think the ski-to-your-door in Slovakia is more 'bothy-style' than 'Courchevel-chique';

With the customary touristy bits over with, we got on with the serious (ahem) job of Round-the-World motorcycling, and headed off for Hungary.

Simon was certainly taking things very seriously, with hardly anytime to take his hands off the handlebars to clean his own visor, he enlisted some help when we refueled.