Today I went on an international journey, walking over the Morava river bridge to Austria. The Slovak side of the border has a playground with outdoor exercise equipment, while the Austrians have this:
and this:
According to Wikipedia (which may for once be wildly inaccurate), there are 10-20 pairs of red kites in Slovakia, and a splendidly precise “0-2” Austrian pairs; this looks to me like half of one of those:
The Austrian side also has views back in to Slovakia. Devin castle:
Back in the Carpathians, I wasn’t sure whether this was a slow worm or a snake, so I took great care of both of us when moving him from the path:
