class reunion after 37 years, stara bystrica, SK

we have been a quite a good class in the high school, you know? even if many of us left our home slovakia many years ago, approximately two thirds of us regularly come to our classmates weekend in the hills, which we organize every 2 or 3 years ... also this time, after 37 years, we have been 18-20 folks out of 29 in the northwestern slovakia, in the tourist village of stara bystrica in the mala fatra mountains close to terchova. btw, slovakia is beautiful, so make clear you can visitslovakia one day, cant you? 😀 ... our tourist village stara bystrica, was special in three ways:

• thx to their major they did not waste the european union funds to make single persons rich, but they've commissioned an artist / architect and restored many of their communal owned buildings like the town hall, school, shopping center, pub and few more in a special wooden coated wayx .. he has even built a wooden astronomical clock at the town aka village hall ... it is not nearle as nice as the clock in prague, but anyway much better as a grey, half-forfeited town hall in many other places in slovakia, if you asked me
• they produce & sell sheep 🐑 milk (zincica) and sheep cheese all over the place, even in front of the church before a mass on sunday
• they've bears 🐻 on the other side of the small bystrica river

btw, out of 29 students live currently 9 - 10 abroad (czech republic, austria, germany, great britain, canada, usa + australia). many of us 'foreigners' come to our nice meetigs each time, you know?

there was a small canyon on the way up

6 of us dared the short, but not easy climbing excercise to the summit of maly rozsutec (1343m)

maly rozsutec (1343m) in the mala fatra mountains

the revitalized village stara bystrica, SK

one of us ,,, she has to pay the accomodation and food for all 💵

next day in the morning ...

... the bystrica rivar

driving home. a short stop few minutes before a heavy thunderstorm in austria

more pictures here.

memories about our last classmates event in northeastern slovakia 2022 here.